handy-httpd 5.1.0

handy-httpd

An extremely lightweight HTTP server for the D programming language.

Check out the full documentation here.

Features

• HTTP/1.1
• Worker pool for request handling
• Simple configuration
• High performance (low GC usage)
• Beginner friendly
• Extensible with custom handlers, exception handlers, and filters
• Well-documented
• Ships with some handy pre-made request handlers:
  • Serve static files with the FileResolvingHandler
  • Apply filters before and after handling requests with the FilteredHandler
  • Handle complex URL paths, including path parameters and wildcards, with the PathDelegatingHandler

Simple Example

In this example, we take advantage of the Dub package manager's single-file SDL syntax to declare HandyHttpd as a dependency. For this example, we'll call this my_server.d.

#!/usr/bin/env dub
/+ dub.sdl:
	dependency "handy_httpd" version="~>5.0"
+/
import handy_httpd;

void main() {
	new HttpServer((ref ctx) {
		if (ctx.request.url == "/hello") {
			response.writeBody("Hello world!");
		} else {
			response.notFound();
		}
	}).start();
}

To start the server, just mark the script as executable, and run it:

chmod +x my_server.d
./my_server.d

And finally, if you navigate to http://localhost:8080/hello, you should see the Hello world! text appear.