webstrada 🌐

A high-performance, lightweight, and modular Web Routing & Network Proxy Engine written in pure C.

webstrada is built for microservices, edge computing, and custom embedded systems that require microsecond-level routing precision without the overhead of heavy web enterprise frameworks. It acts as a super-fast traffic orchestrator, handling HTTP requests, path routing, and upstream proxying with a minimal memory footprint.

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✨ Features

• ⚡ Zero-Copy Routing: Highly optimized path matching and request parsing using standard C memory mechanics.
• 🛡️ Lightweight Proxying: Forward HTTP/HTTPS traffic efficiently to backend upstreams or microservices.
• 🧩 Modular Architecture: Easily extendable with custom plugins or handlers for request modification and logging.
• 💻 Low Resource Footprint: Ideal for containerized cloud environments (Docker) and resource-constrained edge hardware.

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🛠️ Building & Installation

Prerequisites

To compile webstrada, you will need a modern C compiler (gcc or clang), cmake, and standard network socket development headers.

• Ubuntu / Debian:

  sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake

• Arch Linux:

  sudo pacman -S base-devel cmake

Build Steps

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com
   cd webstrada

2. Compile the binary:

   mkdir build && cd build
   cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
   make -j\$(nproc)

3. Install the service:

   sudo make install

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💡 Quick Start

Run webstrada by passing a configuration file or defining your routing paths via the command line interface:

webstrada --config ./config.json --port 8080

Direct Proxy Mode

webstrada --listen 0.0.0.0:80 --upstream 127.0.0.1:3000

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome structural performance enhancements, bug fixes, and feature requests to make webstrada even faster!

1. Fork the project.
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature).
5. Open a Pull Request.

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL-3.0) - see the LICENSE file for details.

Developed with ❤️ by Boris Barbulovski (bokic).