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I have been using Crow C++. I find it easy to use and pretty straightforward. https://github.com/ipkn/crow

Well, it's hard for high level scripting languages to compete with C++ performance-wise... I would have liked to see some other C++ ones on there, like Crow[0] [0] https://github.com/ipkn/crow

Yeah you pretty much summed up what I was doing. Fun to learn a new language, make something work to some low expectation I had. And it did/does. I'll probably try and rewrite in another language again soon. The former version that looked the same was done in Django—but I wanted less overhead. But yeah, I build locally via that script, but upload all relevant files via `deploy.sh`. For "rough and ready" projects, I've enjoyed playing with ipkn/crow—I wish it was still maintained. https://github.com/ipkn/crow And yeah, your take has been similar to mine. I'm okay with it goes down. But the Django system I ran before I was more susceptible to someone breaking in. This one is pretty well untouchable—which is reassuring. I can safely as rarely look at or update it as necessary without worry—and I appreciate the opportunity to be humbled if I

I've used Crow [1], a C++ web micro framework, in the past and it was delightful. Glad to see more competition in this space. [1] https://github.com/ipkn/crow

It's getting better. I've been starting to dig into Crow to see if it might be a worthwhile option as a C++ web app framework: https://github.com/ipkn/crow https://github.com/jolks/crow-template (Relies on libboost https://www.boost.org/) Seriously, it makes putting together a simple API a breeze. I haven't had the chance to try anything more complex yet.

Using CGI is silly and slow, for all but the simplest, stateless servers. If one wishes to avoid the overhead of learning a new framework, at least FastCGI should be considered. A relevant (but dated) discussion about web frameworks in C++ can be found in [1]. I am personally a big fan of CROW [2] and have used it many times in the past. [1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5362... [2] https://github.com/ipkn/crow/blob/master/README.md

You can do this with libboost with this https://github.com/ipkn/crow

The choice to design a web development framework depends on the interest and skills of the people who wants to build frameworks. For the most history of web application development people have used "scripting languages" and thats why most of the frameworks are based on those languages, also these languages are "productive" and good enough for implementing the typical CRUD layer over a database which is what most web apps are about. Check out https://github.com/ipkn/crow for a Modern C++ web framework. NOTE: I used to do C++ 5-6 years ago and now getting back to it by going through modern C++ and also the idea that learning C++ as a layer on top of C is a bad bad idea to learn C++.

Would modern c++ with a decent framework be that bad for web development? I imagine you'd have to do a bit more wiring due to the lack of reflection etc, but that isn't an insurmountable problem. Edit - There a quite a few frameworks out there. This one seemed quite nice: https://github.com/ipkn/crow

A friend of mine is recently writing C++ web framework similar to Python Flask. It has many interesting features like compile-time routing URL parameter checking, easy and fast (probably fastest among C++ json libs) json implementation by taking full advantage of C++11. If interested, take look of following code and repository: https://github.com/ipkn/crow/blob/master/example.cpp