A modern and developer-friendly backend framework for C that handles the complexities of C programming and lets you build backends with ease — inspired by the simplicity of Express.js.
It's not production-ready yet and it doesn't need to be, because it's a hobby project I started to improve my programming skills. See FAQ.
- Full asynchronous operations support
- Built-in JSON parsing and generation
- Session-based authentication mechanism
- Easy management of environment variables
- Flexible middleware support (route-specific and global)
- Express.js-like routing mechanism
- CMake version 3.10 or higher
- A C compiler (GCC, Clang, or MSVC)
- MINGW64 if you are using Windows
Clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/savashn/ecewo.git
cd ecewo
And then run the following commands to create an example starter:
For Linux/macOS:
chmod +x build.sh
./build.sh --create
./build.sh --run
For Windows PowerShell:
./build.bat /create
./build.bat /run
These commands will automatically create the following hello world example and run the server at http://localhost:4000.
// src/handlers.h
#ifndef HANDLERS_H
#define HANDLERS_H
#include "ecewo.h"
void hello_world(Req *req, Res *res);
#endif// src/handlers.c
#include "handlers.h"
void hello_world(Req *req, Res *res)
{
reply(res, "200 OK", "text/plain", "hello world!");
}
// src/main.c
#include "server.h"
#include "handlers.h"
int main()
{
init_router();
get("/", hello_world);
ecewo(4000);
free_router();
return 0;
}<--- NOTE --->
If you have the following issue while compiling:
CMake Error at build/_deps/jansson-src/CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
Compatibility with CMake < 3.5 has been removed from CMake.
Go to build/_deps/jansson-src/ and modify the CMakeLists.txt as follows:
// Change this:
cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.1)
project(jansson C)
// To this:
cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.10)
project(jansson C)
And run ./build.sh --run or ./build.bat /run again.
Refer to the docs to start building a backend with ecewo.
Licensed under MIT.