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26 records
Tagged “header-only”Ranked by health index
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93Exceptionalhealth index
nlohmann/json
JSON for Modern C++
C++★ 50.6KSep 16, 2026
MITSep 16, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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88Excellenthealth index
CrowCpp/Crow
A Fast and Easy to use microframework for the web.
C++★ 4,954Aug 28, 2026
Custom licenseAug 28, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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87Excellenthealth index
yhirose/cpp-httplib
A C++ header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library
C++★ 16.8KSep 16, 2026
MITSep 16, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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86Excellenthealth index
stephenberry/glaze
Extremely fast, in memory, serialization, reflection, and RPC library for C++. JSON, BEVE, BSON, CBOR, CSV, JSONB, MessagePack, TOML, YAML, EETF
C++★ 3,014Sep 13, 2026
MITSep 13, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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83Excellenthealth index
skypjack/entt
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
C++★ 13.2KOct 20, 2026
MITOct 20, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
PyPI
80Excellenthealth index
fktn-k/fkYAML
A C++ header-only YAML library
C++★ 153Sep 17, 2026
MITSep 17, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
crates.io
80Excellenthealth index
yhirose/cpp-peglib
A single file C++ header-only PEG (Parsing Expression Grammars) library
C++ · Rust★ 1,063Sep 14, 2026
MITSep 14, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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78Goodhealth index
martinus/svector
Compact SVO optimized vector for C++17 or higher
C++★ 120Sep 19, 2026
MITSep 19, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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75Goodhealth index
Neargye/magic_enum
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
C++★ 6,174Aug 28, 2026
MITAug 28, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
PyPI
73Goodhealth index
RECHE23/real-regex
Linear-time, ReDoS-safe C++20 header-only regex engine with bounded lookarounds + an re-compatible Python binding
C++ · Python★ 5↓ 8,979/moOct 20, 2026
MITOct 20, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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69Goodhealth index
StratCraftsAI/NexusFix
A zero-alloc, compile-time hardened FIX engine built for sub-100ns execution.
C++★ 98Sep 9, 2026
MITSep 9, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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67Goodhealth index
tristanpenman/valijson
Header-only C++ library for JSON Schema validation, with support for many popular parsers
C++★ 424Sep 12, 2026
BSD-2-ClauseSep 12, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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63Moderatehealth index
keithpotz/CrashCatch
Cross-Platform, Efficient easy to integrate crash reporting library for modern C++
C++ · CMake★ 103Sep 20, 2026
MITSep 20, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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62Moderatehealth index
gulrak/filesystem
An implementation of C++17 std::filesystem for C++11 /C++14/C++17/C++20 on Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD.
C++★ 1,563Sep 14, 2026
MITSep 14, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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57Moderatehealth index
eyalz800/zpp_bits
A lightweight C++20 serialization and RPC library
C++★ 1,007Sep 11, 2026
MITSep 11, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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48Weakhealth index
SSARCandy/ini-cpp
📑 Yet another ini config parser for modern C++
C++★ 54Sep 16, 2026
Custom licenseSep 16, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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47Weakhealth index
ShashwatAgrawal20/tec.h
A tiny, header-only, zero-setup unit testing library for C & C++. No complex build system integration required, just #include and write tests.
C++ · C★ 25Sep 18, 2026
MITSep 18, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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44Weakhealth index
Tessil/ordered-map
C++ hash map and hash set which preserve the order of insertion
C++★ 579Oct 1, 2026
MITOct 1, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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42Weakhealth index
wqking/eventpp
Event Dispatcher and callback list for C++
C++★ 1,683Sep 12, 2026
Custom licenseSep 12, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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41Weakhealth index
vthiery/cpp-statsd-client
A header-only StatsD client implemented in C++
CMake · C++★ 56Sep 5, 2026
MITSep 5, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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38Weakhealth index
nonstd-lite/byte-lite
byte lite - A C++17-like byte type for C++98, C++11 and later in a single-file header-only library
C++ · Python · CMake★ 61Sep 19, 2026
BSL-1.0Sep 19, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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32At Riskhealth index
contour-terminal/boxed-cpp
Boxing primitive types in C++
C++ · CMake★ 18Sep 14, 2026
Apache-2.0Sep 14, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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32At Riskhealth index
mmahnic/argumentum
C++ command line parsing library
C++★ 206Sep 13, 2026
MPL-2.0Sep 13, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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29At Riskhealth index
p-ranav/iris
Lightweight Component Model and Messaging Framework based on ØMQ
C++★ 55Sep 18, 2026
MITSep 18, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
RubyGems
26At Riskhealth index
banditcpp/bandit
Human-friendly unit testing for C++11
C++★ 261Sep 11, 2026
Custom licenseSep 11, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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23At Riskhealth index
peter-winter/ctpg
Compile Time Parser Generator is a C++ single header library which takes a language description as a C++ code and turns it into a LR1 table parser with a deterministic finite automaton lexical analyzer, all in compile time.
C++★ 488Sep 11, 2026
MITSep 11, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0