MacroExpress is a small, asynchronous web framework for Swift. It offers APIs modelled on Node.js and Express while retaining Swift’s type safety and compiled performance.
The framework builds on Macro and provides Connect-style middleware, HTTP routing, template rendering and utilities for handling common web application tasks.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Asynchronous web application framework written in Swift.
- Express.js-inspired routing and application APIs.
- Connect-style middleware processing pipeline.
- Supports GET, POST and other HTTP route handlers.
- Serves static files from configured directories.
- Parses URL-encoded, JSON and raw request bodies.
- Includes cookie parsing and session handling.
- Provides request logging, CORS and HTTP method override middleware.
- Renders dynamic templates with Mustache.
- Supports multipart form data and file uploads through its Multer module.
- Includes MIME type detection and dotenv configuration modules.
- Distributed as modular Swift Package Manager libraries.
Website: github.com/Macro-swift/MacroExpress
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Developer: Helge Heß / ZeeZide
License: Apache License 2.0
MacroExpress is written in Swift. Learn Swift with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Swift Web Frameworks | |
|---|---|
| Vapor | Hugely popular server-side Swift HTTP web framework |
| SwiftNIO | Asynchronous event-driven network application framework |
| Kitura | Web framework and web server created for web services written in Swift |
| Hummingbird | Lightweight, flexible server framework |
| Perfect | Web server and toolkit. Development effectively ceased in 2016 |
| MacroExpress | Small, asynchronous web framework |
| Chaqmoq | Non-blocking server-side web framework |
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