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Tracked open-source repos tagged header-only, sorted by stars.

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Repos created in the last 90 days, tagged header-only.

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  • json@nlohmann

    JSON for Modern C++

    50,486+58Star change over the last 7 days
  • spdlog@gabime

    Fast C++ logging library.

    29,542+29Star change over the last 7 days
  • cpp-httplib@yhirose

    A C++ header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library

    16,791+31Star change over the last 7 days
  • entt@skypjack

    Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more

    13,060+30Star change over the last 7 days
  • Nuklear@Immediate-Mode-UI

    A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

    11,358+21Star change over the last 7 days
  • GuiLite@idea4good

    ✔️The smallest header-only GUI library(4 KLOC) for all platforms

    7,766+4Star change over the last 7 days
  • crow@ipkn

    Crow is very fast and easy to use C++ micro web framework (inspired by Python Flask)

    7,629+3Star change over the last 7 days
  • doctest@doctest

    The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20/23 single-header testing framework

    6,856+9Star change over the last 7 days
  • magic_enum@Neargye

    Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code

    6,177+3Star change over the last 7 days
  • Crow@CrowCpp

    A Fast and Easy to use microframework for the web.

    4,953+2Star change over the last 7 days
  • A curated list of awesome header-only C++ libraries

    4,158+6Star change over the last 7 days
  • Compile Time Regular Expression in C++

    3,840+5Star change over the last 7 days
  • argparse@p-ranav

    Argument Parser for Modern C++

    3,535+13Star change over the last 7 days
  • indicators@p-ranav

    Activity Indicators for Modern C++

    3,410+1Star change over the last 7 days
  • glaze@stephenberry

    Extremely fast, in memory, serialization, reflection, and RPC library for C++. JSON, BEVE, BSON, CBOR, CSV, JSONB, MessagePack, TOML, YAML, EETF

    2,985+13Star change over the last 7 days
  • plog@SergiusTheBest

    Portable, simple and extensible C++ logging library

    2,578+2Star change over the last 7 days
  • cmake-init@friendlyanon

    The missing CMake project initializer

    2,543+3Star change over the last 7 days
  • nameof@Neargye

    Nameof operator for modern C++, simply obtain the name of a variable, type, function, macro, and enum

    2,357+3Star change over the last 7 days
  • cppzmq@zeromq

    Header-only C++ binding for libzmq

    2,330+4Star change over the last 7 days
  • Functional Programming Library for C++. Write concise and readable C++ code.

    2,295+0Star change over the last 7 days
  • palanteer@dfeneyrou

    Visual Python and C++ nanosecond profiler, logger, tests enabler

    2,213+0Star change over the last 7 days
  • PEGTL@taocpp

    Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library

    2,155+6Star change over the last 7 days
  • tomlplusplus@marzer

    Header-only TOML config file parser and serializer for C++17.

    2,134+6Star change over the last 7 days
  • pocketpy@pocketpy

    Portable Python 3.x Interpreter in Modern C for Game Scripting

    2,112+3Star change over the last 7 days
  • uvw@skypjack

    Header-only, event based, tiny and easy to use libuv wrapper in modern C++ - now available as also shared/static library!

    2,056+1Star change over the last 7 days
  • utfcpp@nemtrif

    UTF-8 with C++ in a Portable Way

    1,988+2Star change over the last 7 days
  • inja@pantor

    A Template Engine for Modern C++

    1,964+5Star change over the last 7 days
  • mio@vimpunk

    Cross-platform C++11 header-only library for memory mapped file IO

    1,952-1Star change over the last 7 days
  • kfr@kfrlib

    Fast, modern C++ DSP framework, FFT, Sample Rate Conversion, FIR/IIR/Biquad Filters (SSE, AVX, AVX-512, ARM NEON, RISC-V RVV)

    1,918+1Star change over the last 7 days
  • hana@boostorg

    Your standard library for metaprogramming

    1,852-1Star change over the last 7 days
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