ffead-cpp – web framework, application framework

Last Updated on March 3, 2026

ffead-cpp is a web-framework, application framework, utilities all bundled into one. It also provides an embedded HTTP/Web-Socket compliant high-performance server core. It is a collection of modules all geared towards performing individual roles which together form the cohesive back-bone of ffead-cpp.

It provides a very simple to use and maintain web-framework library with advanced features like Reflection, Dependency Injection (IOC), Inbuilt REST/SOAP support, Security/Authentication features. Moreover implementation for interfacing to caching tools like Memcached/Redis are provided in-built. Database integration/ORM framework (SDORM) solves all major issues with respect to interfacing with SQL/No-SQL database alike.

Multi-level serialization or template level serialization is a high point of ffead-cpp core serialization run-time. Any C++ POCO class can be marked as serializable and the run-time will take care of marshalling/un-marshalling the object to its intended serializable form and back(JSON/XML/BINARY).

Key Features

• Multiple server backends (HTTP 1.1/HTTP 2/HTTP 3).
• Support for multiple I/O event notification engines:
  • io_uring – Linux kernel >= 5.6.
  • epoll – Linux.
  • kqueue – BSD/MacOS.
  • event_ports/devpoll – Solaris.
  • wepoll – Windows (IOCP based epoll library).
  • poll/select – On all platforms that support these API’s.
• Embedded HTTP Server with single process and thread-pool backends.
• SSL/TLS support.
• Web Socket Support.
• Advanced ORM – SDORM (sql/monogo).
• Raw database access (postgresql/mongodb/scylladb).
• PostgreSQL wire database access.
• Cache API (memcached/redis).
• Improved Thread/ThreadPool API(s).
• Marker based configuration (java style annotations).
• Reflection support.
• Serialization support.
• Date/Time Utility functions.
• Dependency Injection.
• Serverside dynamic C++ Pages and template engine (HTML/C++ pages).
• Sample app for Webrtc Signalling (websocket + api) (horizontally scalable peerjs compatible signalling server).
• Embedded HTTP2.0 Server support (experimental).

Website: github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp
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Developer: Sumeet Chhetri
License: Open Source

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