A Drogon CMS built with C, Drogon, CMake, Adwaita and GTK4.

This is a Drogon Content Management System(CMS).

License

• GPL-3.0

Prominent Features and Strengths

• Faster than NginX, WordPress and Strapi
• Built on CMake/C/C++/GTK4/Drogon
• Built on Freedom Software
• Lightning Fast Architecture
• Headless CMS Ready for Site Generators
• Lightweight Reverse Proxy Security
• Database Ready for SQLite3 & PostgreSQL 15
• Custom API Configurations
• C Package Manager (CPM)
• Excellent Documentation

Community Plugins

• Proxy/Local Caching Support
• Website Builder
• Website Preview/Drafts
• WYSIWYG Editor
• Image Gallery
• ...

Benchmarks

A NodeJs Server Test on 2 IO threads

wrk -c200 -d5 -t2 http://localhost:3000
Running 5s test @ http://localhost:3000
  2 threads and 200 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency    51.58ms  159.51ms   1.43s    93.61%
    Req/Sec     7.56k     1.00k    8.24k    94.00%
  75277 requests in 5.01s, 11.56MB read
Requests/sec:  15033.66
Transfer/sec:      2.31MB

A drogon server with web sockets and drogon proxy on 2 IO threads

wrk -c200 -d5 -t2 ws://localhost:8088/
Running 5s test @ ws://localhost:8088/
  2 threads and 200 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     2.67ms    6.11ms  47.94ms   94.97%
    Req/Sec    57.95k     4.90k   69.61k    74.00%
  576699 requests in 5.01s, 394.34MB read
  Non-2xx or 3xx responses: 576699
Requests/sec: 115151.94
Transfer/sec:     78.74MB

Getting a JSON token with web sockets and Drogon proxy on 2 IO threads.

wrk -c200 -d5 -t2 ws://localhost:8088/get-token
Running 5s test @ ws://localhost:8088/get-token
  2 threads and 200 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     1.91ms  402.84us   4.23ms   69.21%
    Req/Sec    50.74k     3.58k   56.43k    61.00%
  504657 requests in 5.01s, 106.36MB read
Requests/sec: 100798.10
Transfer/sec:     21.24MB

Development & Contributing

Developer Dependency Requirements

• GCC (GNU C/C++ Compiler) >= 13.2.1
• PostgreSQL >= 15.1(Priority) or SQLite3(Default) >= 3.43.1 [SEE 3RD PARTY SITE DEPENDENCIES]
• CMake >= 3.28
• Drogon >= 1.9.1 [SEE 3RD PARTY SITE DEPENDENCIES]
• Pkg-Config >= 1.8.1
• Gtk4 >= 4.0
• Adwaita >= 1.3.5
• OpenSSL >= 3.1.2
• Optional Cambalache >= 0.93 (Gtk4 Editor) [SEE 3RD PARTY SITE DEPENDENCIES]
• Optional Geany IDE >= 1.38
• CLI Experience
• Git/Github Experience

Note: This has been built and tested on Arch Linux

Steps to Build DrogonCMS from Source Code

0. Clone the repository git clone https://git.sharpetronics.com/sharpetronics/DrogonCMS and cd DrogonCMS/
1. optional checkout correct branch e.g. git checkout drogonCMS-cmake
2. Run cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .
3. Then, to build the executable, we do cmake --build .
4. Run the app with ./DrogonCMS

Requirements

Drogon framework compile/build dependencies.

• Drogon >= 1.9.1 https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon/wiki/ENG-02-Installation#System-Preparation-Examples

Recommendations

A GTK4 editor is a recommended tool for this project; all UI's and project files .cmb are stored in ./src/ui/.

• Cambalache >= 0.93 https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/cambalache

An optional recommendation is Geany IDE.

• Geany IDE https://www.geany.org/

IDE build commands via Geany Build -> Set Build Commands

This is what my build commands look like in Geany IDE with GNU Automake Tools.

Name	Command	Working Directory
Configure	../configure	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/drogon-dash/build
AutoReconf	autoreconf -vi	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/drogon-dash
Make	make	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/drogon-dash/build
Run	./drogon_dashboard	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/drogon-dash/build
Make Bins	make dist	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/drogon-dash/build

This is what my build commands look like in Geany IDE with BSD CMake Tools.

Name	Command	Working Directory
Configure	cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/DrogonCMS/
Build	cmake --build .	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/DrogonCMS
Run GUI	./DrogonCMS	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/DrogonCMS/
Run API	./DrogonCMS-API-Server	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/DrogonCMS/vendors/api-server/
Install	cmake --install	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/DrogonCMS/

Authors

• SharpeTronics, LLC
• oDinZu WenKi(Charles)

Financial Support & Donations

oDinZu WenKi(Charles) https://liberapay.com/oDinZu/

• Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform
• Run by a non-profit organization
• Source code is public
• No commission fee
• ~5% payment processing fee

Learning Resources

• Adawaita Documentation https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/main/index.html
• Cambalache https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/cambalache
• C References https://en.cppreference.com/w/c
• CMake Documentation https://cmake.org/cmake/help/book/mastering-cmake/index.html
• CPM Make Github https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake#snippets
• Drogon Web Server https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon
• Geany IDE https://www.geany.org/
• Gio Documentation https://docs.gtk.org/gio/index.html
• GLib Documentation https://docs.gtk.org/glib/index.html
• GObject Documentation https://docs.gtk.org/gobject/index.html
• GTK 4 Demos https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/tree/main/demos
• GTK 4 Documentation https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/
• PostgreSQL 15 Documentation https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/index.html
• SQLite3 Documentation https://www.sqlite.org/capi3ref.html

Notice: We focus implementation with the C programming language and only add various features of C ++ code.