Winter is coming

State of the Rewrite

A lot of progress since last week : the API is stabilizing (SimpleWServer, HttpSession, HttpRequest, HttpResponse, Router), but I still have to find the best approach for modules. There is a full test suite to prevent regressions and the nightly nuget is usable (you need to enable pre-release).

I archived the current version to a v16 folder and the rewrite is now in master.

Feature / Aspect	SimpleW v16 (current)	SimpleW v26 (in progress)
NET runtime	NET8	NET8 but should consider NET9/NET10 for better perfs and RAM usage under heady load (e.g: NET8 400Mo, NET9 100Mo, NET10 70Mo)
Core architecture	⚠️ (tied to NetCoreServer)	✅ from scratch (custom, simple, clean)
Code readability	⚠️	✅
Overall design philosophy	⚠️ wrapper	✅ minimal, custom, fast
Long-term maintainability	⚠️ harder	✅ much easier
Performance	✅ (very high)	✅ (very high)
Extensibility	⚠️ (callback, subclass)	✅ (midlleware, module, callback, subclass)
Middleware	❌	✅
Modules	❌	✅
Minimal API	✅	✅
Response Builder	✅(status, contentType, headers, body, cookies)	✅ (status, contentType, headers, body, cookies, compression)
Handler (Expression Tree)	✅ sync ❌async	✅ sync ✅ async
Routing	✅ (minimal, attribute, querystring, regexp, path, wildcard)	✅ (minimal, attribute, querystring, path, wildcard)
Controllers	✅	✅
SSL / HTTPS	✅ (SslContext)	✅ (SslContext)
WebSocket	✅	⚠️ WIP
Server-Sent Events (SSE)	✅	📅 TODO
JWT auth	✅	📅 TODO
Unix socket	✅	✅
Static files	✅	✅
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)	✅	⚠️ WIP
Body parsing (JSON)	✅	✅
Body parsing (form-urlencoded)	✅	✅
Body parsing (multipart/form-data)	✅	✅
WebUser / Identity	✅	📅 TODO
Custom JSON engine	✅	✅
HTTP pipelining	❌	✅
Idle Timeout	❌	✅
Logging	✅	📅 TODO
Observability (logs, traces)	✅	📅 TODO
Documentation	✅	⚠️ WIP

Documentation

There are two documentation flavors (the switch is in the top right corner) :

• current production v16 : freeze
• the new rewrite v26 : copy/paste WIP, I have a lot of pages to update

Teasing

"SimpleW vs Aspnet", coming soon to your theather 🍿🔥