Software Development

I did some experimenting with drogon to port over a web site I had implemented in Wt webtoolkit web tool.

The views, controls, and static presentations performed well for building a web site in a traditional way.

However, when it came time to assign a domain name and run an SSL certificate based website, it started failing/crashing when certain SSL incompatible web queries were generated. It didn't have a recoverable failure mode. It simply raised an exception and crashed. I looked at the crash locations, and it seems that some clean up operations are mis-ordered, plus there were other problems. Then reading the issues list, the author even acknowledges that the whole SSL thing was a bolt-on after-thought and requires significant re-write.

Sigh. Drogon is out the window.

On to giving Boost Beast a try. This will require some work to add cookies and other refinements, but at least it is well integrated with SSL.

drogon is a fast C++ web framework.

Some build notes:

sudo apt install git cmake build-essential
sudo apt install libjsoncpp-dev uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libsqlite3-dev  \
  libc-ares-dev dia libyaml-cpp-dev libssl-dev libbrotli-dev
git clone https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon
cd drogon
git submodule update --init
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Create a project:

drogon_ctl create project project_name
cd project_name/build
cmake ..
make
cd ..
# run project, default port is 5555
build/project_name