petrel - Documentation

Petrel is a web server with HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 support that provides a C++/lua framework for easy micro/web service development.

• Open source (licensed under MIT, see License)
• Written in modern C++ (requires at least C++11)
• Combines fibers with LUA (no callbacks, just write your “blocking” code and don’t care about threads or non-blocking IO)
• Provides a C++ library interface to implement performance critical code
• Provides a LUA framework to implement business logic

Contents

• Getting Started
• Installation Guide
• Docker Guide
• Developer Guide
• Configuration Options
• Request Handler Interface
• Builtin Libraries
• Native Libraries
• Native Library Tutorial
• License
• Website
• Source Code