What is Mongoose Web Server?
Mongoose is built on top of Libmongoose embedded library, which can turn anything into a web server in 5 minutes worth of effort and few lines of code. Libmongoose is used to serve Web GUI on embedded devices, implement RESTful services, RPC frameworks (e.g. JSON-RPC), handle telemetry data exchange, and perform many other tasks in various different industries including aerospace, manufacturing, finance, research, automotive, gaming, IT.
Mongoose Web Server is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
Mongoose Web Server is an open source tool with 10.5K GitHub stars and 2.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Mongoose Web Server's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Mongoose Web Server?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Mongoose Web Server in their tech stacks, including Loop Stack, Bidaway, and Fast Microservices LLC.
Developers
9 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Mongoose Web Server.
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Mongoose Web Server Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Mongoose Web Server?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.
Microsoft IIS
Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.
OpenResty
OpenResty (aka. ngx_openresty) is a full-fledged web application server by bundling the standard Nginx core, lots of 3rd-party Nginx modules, as well as most of their external dependencies.
