CWEB

Want to build a web site, but you are the C developer. Well I got you...

With CWEB project you can:

• Generate frontend (HTML and CSS code) from C code directly.
• Link input text areas and clicks callbacks to C code
• Change the state and appereance of the current page from C code.

It also provides adaptive designs, so your pages will look normal even on mobile devices.

As example of simple "Hello-world" page:

cweb_app app;
cweb_app_create(&app, "127.0.0.1", 8080);

cweb_widget root;
cweb_container_create(&root, CWEB_VERTICAL);
cweb_container_set_gap(&root, 12);
cweb_container_set_padding(&root, cweb_pad(24));

cweb_widget header;
cweb_box_create(&header);
cweb_box_set_size(&header, 1.0f, 0.1f);
cweb_box_set_placement(&header, CWEB_PLACE_CENTER);

cweb_widget header_text;
cweb_text_create(&header_text, "cweb demo");
cweb_text_set_font_size(&header_text, 28);
cweb_box_add_text(&header, &header_text);

cweb_container_add(&root, &header);
cweb_app_set_root(&app, &root);

cweb_app_run(&app);
cweb_app_destroy(&app);

And notice that no malloc() and free() was used. Also as example of complex site, built with cweb you can look at worldfreeteam.org

Building

Build process is very simple. You can launch:

./build/build

This script will compile and library and your main file to ./build/demo/...

Also it can be usefull to use a live script:

./scripts/live

It looks at cweb/ and your main files and when change happens, rebuilds and restarts your website

Deployment

If you want to share your website with public, than you need some reverse proxy (e.g. Nginx or Caddy) to route traffic to your localhost with cweb program.

To ensure that your server will be save even if CWEB will be exploited, create special user. For example you can use scripts/setup-user (at server).

Also you probably will develop site in your localhost and for fast shipping you can use scripts/deploy.

Before using any scripts, change there values to yours.