CWEB

A high perfomance Full Stack Web Framework fully written in C

Installation

Recommended: package repository setup

The easiest way on Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/RHEL and Alpine is the cweb archive setup script:

curl -fsSL https://archive.cwebframework.com/setup.sh | sudo -E sh

The script automatically:

• detects apt, dnf/yum or apk
• installs the matching cweb repository signing key
• adds the cweb package repository
• refreshes the package cache

After that, install the framework and CLI:

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install -y libcweb-dev cweb-cli

# Fedora / RHEL
sudo dnf install -y libcweb-dev cweb-cli

# Alpine
sudo apk add libcweb-dev cweb-cli

On very small Docker images you may need to install curl and CA certificates before downloading the setup script:

apt-get update
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl
curl -fsSL https://archive.cwebframework.com/setup.sh | sh

Manual repository setup

If you do not want to run the setup script, you can add the repository manually.

Debian / Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://archive.cwebframework.com/keys/cweb-archive.asc \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/cweb-archive.asc >/dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/cweb-archive.asc] https://archive.cwebframework.com/apt/ ./' \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cweb.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y libcweb-dev cweb-cli

Fedora / RHEL:

sudo rpm --import https://archive.cwebframework.com/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-cweb
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/cweb.repo >/dev/null <<'EOF'
[cweb]
name=cweb Packages
baseurl=https://archive.cwebframework.com/rpm/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://archive.cwebframework.com/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-cweb
EOF
sudo dnf install -y libcweb-dev cweb-cli

Alpine:

curl -fsSL https://archive.cwebframework.com/keys/cweb-apk.rsa.pub \
  -o /etc/apk/keys/cweb-apk.rsa.pub
echo 'https://archive.cwebframework.com/apk/' >> /etc/apk/repositories
apk update
apk add libcweb-dev cweb-cli

Development with Docker Compose

For local development you can also use Docker Compose. This is mainly useful on Windows systems, in fresh dev environments, or when you do not want to install all build dependencies directly on your machine.

docker compose up -d mariadb
docker compose run --rm app

The compose setup is intended for development only. For normal usage, prefer installing libcweb-dev and cweb-cli from the package repository.

Documentation

Documentation

Contribution Guide

Related

STARTER REPO

Features

• TemplateEngine (write c Code and HTML mixed)
• cwagger (swaggger like auto api documentation)
• In memory FileCache/FileServer
• Auto Routing
• compression support
• http/1.1
• fetch
• Debug tools like Logger
• and many more..

Authors

• @BenBohle

Contact

Email: kontakt@benbohle.de