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		securityfreak on March 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Drogon – A C++14/17 based high performanc... Drogon is an application framework. Nginx is a web server. You can’t write a custom application in nginx. You can write almost anything in Drogon. Both handle HTTP requests, but nginx mostly forwards requests to other stacks.

dagw on March 19, 2019 [–]

You can’t write a custom application in nginx.

Using Nginx modules and LuaJIT, you kind of can. OpenResty is a web framework built using this principle.

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