A Drogon CMS built with C, Drogon, CMake, Adwaita and Gtk4

This is a Drogon Content Management System(CMS).

License

• GPL-3.0

Features and Strengths

• 2x-3x Faster than NginX or WordPress and Strapi
• Built on CMake/C/C++/GTK4/Drogon
• Plugin Built-in Proxy/Local Caching Support
• Plugin Website Builder
• Optional Community Support/Plugins
• Plugin Website Preview/Drafts
• Plugin WYSIWYG Editor
• Plugin Image Gallery
• Built on Freedom Software
• Blazing Fast Website Architecture
• Headless CMS Ready for Site Generators
• Lightweight Security with serverless architecture, plus optional proxy securities and caching.
• Excellent Documentation

Benchmarks

Drogon Server Only with 2 IO threads

wrk -c200 -d5 -t2 http://localhost:8848/hello
Running 5s test @ http://localhost:8848/hello
  2 threads and 200 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     1.91ms  689.56us   7.56ms   72.86%
    Req/Sec    52.72k     3.50k   63.00k    71.00%
  524174 requests in 5.00s, 91.48MB read
Requests/sec: 104741.94
Transfer/sec:     18.28MB

Drogon Server + Drogon Proxy with 2 IO threads

wrk -c200 -d5 -t2 http://localhost:8088/hello
Running 5s test @ http://localhost:8088/hello
  2 threads and 200 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     3.95ms    0.94ms   8.80ms   67.84%
    Req/Sec    25.39k     3.15k   29.20k    84.00%
  252520 requests in 5.00s, 44.07MB read
Requests/sec:  50465.86
Transfer/sec:      8.81MB

Drogon Server + NginX Proxy with 2 IO threads

wrk -c200 -d5 -t2 http://localhost:8080/hello
Running 5s test @ http://localhost:8080/hello
  2 threads and 200 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency    24.56ms  138.63ms   1.96s    96.95%
    Req/Sec    18.80k     2.73k   26.83k    86.27%
  190708 requests in 5.10s, 34.21MB read
  Socket errors: connect 0, read 11, write 0, timeout 51
  Non-2xx or 3xx responses: 166
Requests/sec:  37372.18
Transfer/sec:      6.70MB

Development & Contributing

Developer Dependency Requirements

• GCC (GNU C/C++ Compiler) 13.2.1
• CMake >= 3.28
• Drogon >= 1.9.1 [SEE REQUIREMENTS]
• Pkg-Config >= 1.8.1
• Gtk4 >= 4.0
• Adwaita >= 1.3.5
• Optional Cambalache >= 0.14 (Gtk4 Editor) [SEE REQUIREMENTS]
• Optional Geany IDE
• CLI 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 >= 0.14 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	./DrogonCMS	/home/username/Desktop/Local-Development/cplusplus/DrogonCMS
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
• 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/

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