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21 records
Tagged “header-only”Ranked by health index
94Exceptionalhealth index
nlohmann/json
JSON for Modern C++
C++★ 50.3KAug 4, 2026
MITAug 4, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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
88Excellenthealth 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++★ 2,912Jul 22, 2026
MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
88Excellenthealth index
yhirose/cpp-httplib
A C++ header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library
C++★ 16.7KAug 5, 2026
MITAug 5, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
crates.io
81Excellenthealth index
yhirose/cpp-peglib
A single file C++ header-only PEG (Parsing Expression Grammars) library
C++ · Rust★ 1,048Jul 30, 2026
MITJul 30, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
80Excellenthealth index
skypjack/entt
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
C++★ 13KAug 23, 2026
MITAug 23, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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
75Goodhealth index
silverstreamsai/nexusfix
A zero-alloc, compile-time hardened FIX engine built for sub-100ns execution.
C++★ 92Jul 17, 2026
MITJul 17, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
75Goodhealth index
tristanpenman/valijson
Header-only C++ library for JSON Schema validation, with support for many popular parsers
C++★ 421Jul 21, 2026
BSD-2-ClauseJul 21, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
PyPI
73Goodhealth index
fktn-k/fkYAML
A C++ header-only YAML library
C++★ 151Aug 6, 2026
MITAug 6, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
65Goodhealth 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++★ 1,549Jul 29, 2026
MITJul 29, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
PyPI
60Moderatehealth index
RECHE23/real-regex
Linear-time, ReDoS-safe C++20 header-only regex engine with bounded lookarounds + an re-compatible Python binding
C++ · Python★ 3↓ 15.2K/moAug 22, 2026
MITAug 22, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
57Moderatehealth index
eyalz800/zpp_bits
A lightweight C++20 serialization and RPC library
C++★ 989Jul 20, 2026
MITJul 20, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
53Moderatehealth index
SSARCandy/ini-cpp
📑 Yet another ini config parser for modern C++
C++★ 54Aug 4, 2026
Custom licenseAug 4, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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★ 25Aug 14, 2026
MITAug 14, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
RubyGems
45Weakhealth index
banditcpp/bandit
Human-friendly unit testing for C++11
C++★ 260Jul 19, 2026
Custom licenseJul 19, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
42Weakhealth index
wqking/eventpp
Event Dispatcher and callback list for C++
C++★ 1,672Jul 21, 2026
Custom licenseJul 21, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
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
38Weakhealth 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++★ 488Jul 19, 2026
MITJul 19, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
33At Riskhealth index
contour-terminal/boxed-cpp
Boxing primitive types in C++
C++ · CMake★ 17Jul 31, 2026
Apache-2.0Jul 31, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
32At Riskhealth index
mmahnic/argumentum
C++ command line parsing library
C++★ 207Jul 25, 2026
MPL-2.0Jul 25, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0