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Wt (pronounced as witty) is a C++ library for developing web applications.
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The API is widget-centric and uses well-tested patterns of desktop GUI
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development tailored to the web. To the developer, it offers abstraction of
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many web-specific implementation details, including client-server protocols
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(HTTP, Ajax, WebSockets), and frees the developer from tedious JavaScript
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manipulations of HTML and dealing with cross-browser issues. Instead, with Wt,
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you can focus on actual functionality with a rich set of feature-complete
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widgets. Unlike old-school page-based frameworks or current-day single-page
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JavaScript "frameworks", Wt allows you to create stateful applications that are
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at the same time highly interactive (using WebSockets and Ajax for everything)
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but still support plain HTML browsers or web crawlers using automatic graceful
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degradation or progressive enhancement. Things that are natural and simple
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with Wt would require an impractical amount of development effort otherwise:
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switching widgets using animations, while retaining clean URLs and browser
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navigation functions, or having a persistent chat widget open throughout the
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entire application, that even works in legacy browsers like Microsoft Internet
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Explorer 6.
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The library comes with an application server that acts as a stand-alone
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Http(s)/WebSocket server or integrates through FastCGI with other web servers.
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WWW: https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
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