Cutelyst - The Qt Web Framework

A Web Framework built on top of Qt, using the simple and elegant approach of Catalyst (Perl) framework.

Qt's meta object system is what powers the core of Cutelyst, it allows for introspecting controller's methods signatures and generate matching actions that can be invoked later.

BENCHMARKS

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FEATURES:

Cross-platform
Stable API/ABI - v1 on v1.x.x branch and v2 on tagged from master
Pluggable Engines
- Cutelyst-WSGI - A cross-platform and fast WSGI engine
  - HTTP/1.1 - Pipelining and Keep-Alive
  - HTTP/2 - Upgrade to H2, ALPN negotiation on HTTPS and direct H2C
  - FastCGI - Pipelining and Keep-Alive
- uWSGI - Multiple protocols support (HTTP 1.0, FastCGI, uWSGI)
WebSockets
REST with ActionREST
Plugin based views
- Grantlee (A Qt implementation of Django's template engine)
- Clearsilver
- JSON
- Email
Dispatcher
- Chained
- Path
Plugins
- Session
- Authentication (with PBKDF2)
- Authorization with RoleACL
- StatusMessage
- Validator (to validate user input)
- CSRF protection
- Memcached
Upload parser
JSON body as QJsonDocument when uploaded data is in JSON format
C++11
Chunked reponses (via QIODevice write API)
Request profiling/stats
~~Asynchronous processing~~ (was broken and will be redesigned, don't use local QEventLoops or it will eventually crash)
Unit tested
QtCreator integration

DOCUMENTATION

Get started with our Tutorial or check the API.

COMMUNITY

The Cutelyst project IRC channel is #cutelyst on freenode.

Or you can use the Mailing List

REQUIREMENTS

CMake - for the build system (>= 3.1)
Qt - the core library of this framework (>= 5.6)

OPTIONAL

uWSGI - to receive and parse protocols requests (>= 1.9 recommended)

LICENSE

The library is under the LGPLv2+ and public header files, documentation and examples are under MIT license.

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