Kitura

Kitura is a free and open-source web framework written in Swift, developed by IBM and licensed under Apache License 2.0.^[2][3] It’s an HTTP server and web framework for writing Swift server applications.

Kitura
Developer(s)	IBM and others
Initial release	9 February 2016; 9 years ago (2016-02-09)
Final release	3.0.0 / September 18, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-09-18)[1]
Repository	github.com/Kitura/Kitura
Written in	Swift
Operating system	OS X, iOS, Linux
Platform	x86, IBM Z
Type	Web framework
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	www.kitura.dev

In December 2019, IBM announced it had no further plans to develop the Kitura framework.^[4][5] As of January 2020, work on server-side Swift was discontinued at IBM.^[6] In September 2020, Kitura transitioned to be a community-run project^[7][8] however it struggled to gain traction within the developer community and so is no longer under active development.^[9]

Features

• URL routing (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
• URL parameters
• Static file serving
• FastCGI support
• JSON parsing
• Pluggable middleware

See also

• Vapor (web framework)