ringabout / httpx

Cross platform web server for Nim.

httpx

This project is based on Dom96's perfect work on httpbeast and adds windows support(based on wepoll namely IOCP).

It is also used by prologue.

Installation

nimble install httpx

Notes

Notes that multi-threads may be slower than single-thread!

Usage

Change server info name

-d:serverInfo:serverName

Enable threads

--threads:on

Hello world

import options, asyncdispatch

import httpx

proc onRequest(req: Request): Future[void] =
  if req.httpMethod == some(HttpGet):
    case req.path.get()
    of "/":
      req.send("Hello World")
    else:
      req.send(Http404)

run(onRequest)

Websocket support

https://github.com/ringabout/websocketx

nimble install https://github.com/ringabout/websocketx