Crow is C++ microframework for web. (inspired by Python Flask)
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```c++
#include "crow.h"
int main()
{
crow::SimpleApp app;
CROW_ROUTE(app, "/")([](){
return "Hello world";
});
app.port(18080).multithreaded().run();
}
```
## Features
- Easy routing
- Similiar to Flask
- Type-safe Handlers (see Example)
- Very Fast
- 
- More data on [crow-benchmark](https://github.com/ipkn/crow-benchmark)
- Fast built-in JSON parser (crow::json)
- [Mustache](http://mustache.github.io/) based templating library (crow::mustache)
- Header only
- Provide an amalgamated header file `crow_all.h' with every features
- Middleware support
## Still in development
- ~~Built-in ORM~~
- Check [sqlpp11](https://github.com/rbock/sqlpp11) if you want one.
## Examples
#### JSON Response
```c++
CROW_ROUTE(app, "/json")
([]{
crow::json::wvalue x;
x["message"] = "Hello, World!";
return x;
});
```
#### Arguments
```c++
CROW_ROUTE(app,"/hello/<int>")
([](int count){
if (count > 100)
return crow::response(400);
std::ostringstream os;
os << count << " bottles of beer!";
return crow::response(os.str());
});
```
Handler arguments type check at compile time
```c++
// Compile error with message "Handler type is mismatched with URL paramters"
CROW_ROUTE(app,"/another/<int>")
([](int a, int b){
return crow::response(500);
});
```
#### Handling JSON Requests
```c++
CROW_ROUTE(app, "/add_json")
.methods("POST"_method)
([](const crow::request& req){
auto x = crow::json::load(req.body);
if (!x)
return crow::response(400);
int sum = x["a"].i()+x["b"].i();
std::ostringstream os;
os << sum;
return crow::response{os.str()};
});
```
## How to Build
If you just want to use crow, copy amalgamate/crow_all.h and include it.
### Requirements
- C++ compiler with good C++11 support (tested with g++>=4.8)
- boost library
- CMake for build examples
- Linking with tcmalloc/jemalloc is recommended for speed.
- Now supporting VS2013 with limited functionality (only run-time check for url is available.)
### Building (Tests, Examples)
Out-of-source build with CMake is recommended.
```
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
```
You can run tests with following commands:
```
ctest
```
### Installing missing dependencies
#### Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtcmalloc-minimal4 && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4 /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so
#### OSX
brew install boost google-perftools
### Attributions
Crow uses the following libraries.
qs_parse
https://github.com/bartgrantham/qs_parse
Copyright (c) 2010 Bart Grantham
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