Paozhu is a full-stack C++ web framework designed for rapid development. It integrates a web server, object-relational mapper, routing system, template support and administration interface within a single project.
The framework handles HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, WebSocket and JSON traffic, with coroutines, thread pools and database connection pooling used to support concurrent applications. It requires C++20 and supports Linux, macOS and Windows.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides an integrated HTTP and HTTPS web server.
- Supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and WebSocket communication.
- Includes a MySQL ORM with connection pooling and coroutine support.
- Maps annotated controller functions to URL routes.
- Offers JSON encoding, decoding and C++ structure reflection.
- Provides synchronous, asynchronous and coroutine-based HTTP clients.
- Supports multiple domains and SSL configurations.
- Includes thread pools for framework and application code.
- Offers gzip and Brotli compression with disk caching.
- Supports dynamically loaded plugins and hot module replacement.
- Includes traffic limiting and application-level caching.
- Provides automatic ACME certificate renewal and OCSP stapling.
- Includes an administration interface with content-management examples.
- Supports RPC, FastCGI, socket clients and socket servers.
Website: github.com/hggq/paozhu
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Developer: Huang Ziquan
License: MIT License
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