Cusend

Cusend (C plUS plUS back-END) is a lightweight C++ library for building Web APIs. The idea is inspired by crow and the API style is inspired by express.

Hello World example

#include <Cusend/Application.h>

void helloRoute(csd::Request& req, csd::Response& res) {
	csd::ResponseFactory::text(res, "Hello World!");
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
	csd::Application app;
	
	app.route(csd::Methods::Get, "/hello", helloRoute);
	app.listen(3000);
	return 0;
}

Browsing to localhost:3000/hello in your favourite browser will show “Hello World!” text.

Features

• Designed to be cross-platform
• API is easy-to-use and easy-to-understand
• Uses multi-threading for handling connections

TODO

• GET params parsing
• POST params parsing
• URL encoding/decoding
• multipart/form-data POST body parsing
• URI params parsing (e.g. GET /article/:articleID)
• Cookie management
• Add documentation and doxygen
• Support as many MIME-types as possible
• Middleware routing
• Error-prone request parser
• Implement platform-specifc functions for Unix/Linux
• Create makefiles for different platforms
• Provide precompiled binaries for Windows
• keep-alive connections?

Contributing

Contributions are welcomed. If you found a bug or want to add a feature - open an issue. You can also create a pull request which fixes the bug or adds the feature respectively. Please, try to follow same code style as in the whole project. Use express API docs for reference.

Authors

• MrOnlineCoder (creator and maintainer)

License

MIT
see LICENSE file