Open Beta

State of the Rewrite

Here we are : the beta is now available !

In the previous thread, I mentioned Add-ons, there are already a few available :

• Chaos: provides a chaos engineering module.
• Firewall: IP allow/block lists, rate limiting, and related telemetry.
• Hosting: if you like the way ASP.NET is initialized as a service, this one is for you.
• Latency: artificially delays HTTP responses in a controlled and deterministic way.
• Razor: if you like the Razor template engine, this one is for you.
• Swagger: provides Swagger / OpenAPI documentation support for the SimpleW web server.

How do you use them ?
I spent a crazy amount of time in writing the documentation, read it!

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)
Middleware	❌	✅
Modules	❌	✅
Extensibility	⚠️ (callback, subclass)	✅ midlleware, module, callback, subclass
Response Builder	✅(status, contentType, headers, body, cookies)	✅ (status, contentType, contentLength, headers, body, cookies, compression)
Handler (Expression Tree)	✅ sync ❌async	✅ sync ✅ async + RequestAborted
Routing	✅ (minimal, attribute, querystring, regexp, path, wildcard)	✅ (minimal, attribute, querystring, path, wildcard)
Minimal API	✅	✅
Controllers	✅	✅
SSL / HTTPS	✅ (SslContext)	✅ (SslContext)
WebSocket	✅(full broadcast)	✅ (smart broadcast using "rooms")
Server-Sent Events (SSE)	✅	✅
Basic Auth	❌	✅
JWT auth	✅	✅
Unix socket	✅	✅
Static files	✅ (Cache, FileWatcher)	✅ (Cache, FileWatcher, Last-Modified, Etag)
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)	✅	✅
Body parsing (JSON)	✅	✅
Body parsing (form-urlencoded)	✅	✅
Body parsing (multipart/form-data)	✅	✅
WebUser / Identity	✅	✅
Custom JSON engine	✅	✅
HTTP pipelining	❌	✅
Idle Timeout	❌	✅
Request Protection	❌	✅(malformed)
Observability	✅ (traces) & global to all processes	✅ (traces, metrics, enrich) per SimpleWServer instance
Documentation	✅	✅ simplew.net
Tests	✅	✅ (more tests)
Support	❌	✅ Discord
Add-Ons	❌	✅ Chaos, Firewall, Hosting, Latency, Razor, Swagger