CppCon 2018: Yu Qi “Feather: A Modern C++ Web Development Framework”

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We will discuss how to implement a rapid web development framework in Modern C++, paying attention to ease-of-use and comparing favorable with frameworks of other lanuages.
The Feather framework is composed of four cool libraries working together. These libraries are:
*) cinatra, a flexible and powerful http/websocket library providing web services. It supports a functional interface and Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) for web applications.
*) ormpp, an Object-relational mapping (ORM) library that provides a single interface for database access. It currently supports MySQL, PostgresSQL, and SQLite and can be extended to support other databases.
*) render, a HTML template rendering library.
We’ll cover how these libraries work together to implement that Feather framework and how to use Feather to develop a web application rapidly.
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Yu Qi, oneflow
Technical Director
Yu is a C++ programmer with 10 years experience who lives in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China. He loves modern C++ and has founded an open source community ( www.purecpp.org/ ) to promote C++11/14 in China. His focus is distributed systems and he is the author of rest_rpc, an RPC library implemented in C++14. Yu's github is github.com/qicosmos . Yu wrote a Chinese language book about C++11 in 2015: item.jd.com/11701870.html The title translates as "C++11 In Depth."
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[@randy6710]

Great job, lots of potential as a lightweight web framework in pure modern cpp.

[@esjay3562]

Looks very interesting. I will give it a try...

[@mikael5743]

Feather is awesome!

[@rafaellcustodiogmail]

Hi, please make a cookbook or something for newbies/intermediates...Your framework look awsome

[@SandburgNounouRs]

You missed Wt c++ framework www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
Video of presentation here : archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/web_development_in_c/

[@Curocko]

This is an old video but this is pleasant and nice. The cmments here were a little rude.

[@rajaravivarmar]

Thank you. BTW I am huge fan of cinatra. But I felt the only drawback is lack of English documentation.

[@qicosmos4135]

I will add English documentation soon.

[@rajaravivarmar]

@@qicosmos4135 awesome 🙂

[@initfunction6961]

I want to make REST API with C++ and use Vue Js for frontend.

Feather looks really interesting, but the total lack of any English resources for it is a bummer.

[@qicosmos4135]

I will add English documentation soon.

[@lserranoit]

@@qicosmos4135 I can help you with spanish doc if you need it.

[@ogunleyepius4299]

This is great I will try it now, but you didn't talk about parsing HTTP query data

[@qicosmos4135]

Yes, because it's a trivial and i'm not sure it the audience want it. Indeed i use picohttpparser to parse http request.

[@warrenbuckley3267]

I'm wondering if I could use this framework to build a wasm spa application. Edit: This framework looks cool but it needs English documentation

[@qicosmos4135]

I will add English documentation soon.

[@karamanabdullah]

@@qicosmos4135 did you add?

[@abusarimshahbaz]

Awesome. I would like to try it for building restful Apis. Any idea how to integrate swagger?

[@htpcbOasisSAMDF]

medium.com/oatpp/c-oatpp-web-service-with-swagger-ui-and-auto-documented-endpoints-1d4bb7b82c21

[@htpcbOasisSAMDF]

do you have another framewrok for this propouse ?

[@wrightleftify]

Seems like he missed a great C++ web framework, Wt (or Witty). I've used it to create a dashboard web application and it worked pretty good. It is modeled on Qt. So if you've made an application using that, you're already ahead of the game.

[@andik70]

Wt has gpl and commercial licensing. This might not always fit your requirements. This library (as far as I can tell) is MIT license. For you, this might not make a difference, for me it does.

[@technolizard2280]

How good compared to python django ?

[@IvanGeorgiev]

Looks interesting but i don't speak or read Chinese. All the documentation and communication in github is in Chinese. If you don't enforce English everywhere you'll get zero adoption outside China.

[@venleryin3031]

feather or feature ?

[@rajaravivarmar]

Feather it is

[@sergeiromanoff]

you need to actually watch it

[@alexandersantosablaza7033]

This looks like c# entity framework

[@sergeiromanoff]

c++ is the wrong language for the task

[@DJOverlast]

Ah finally I can stop using xanax to fall asleep because i found this video.

[@wi8shad0w]

#Harsh