WebFramework

Cross-platform .NET library written in C# that allows you to create a web server for dynamic and/or static websites and web apps with ease.

Main features

• Modular structure for high customizability
• Events for different types of HTTP requests (app, API, post, upload, download) with objects for easy access to everything you need to handle those requests
• Automatic SSL certificates using Let's Encrypt
• Pages and elements so you don't have to write any HTML code
• .wfpg files to quickly create static web pages
• Accounts with everything one would expect from an account
• Mail server (incoming and outgoing) with SPF, DKIM and DMARC
• Object-oriented database
• File server with server cache and browser cache management
• Worker to regularly update files, handle memory integrity, certificates and more
• Plugins (see more below)
• Option for usage as a local web server for local web apps as interfaces for proper apps on a computer
• Backups for the database and external files

...and much more!

Most features have plugins as interfaces.

Installation

You can get the NuGet package here: uwap.WebFramework

You can also download the source code from GitHub and add a reference to it from your project.

This library is based on ASP.NET, so it's best to create an empty ASP.NET project rather than a console app (those will terminate unless paused otherwise).

Official plugins

• ServerPlugin (interface for server management by administrator accounts)
• UsersPlugin (interface for accounts)
• NotesPlugin (web app for user's notes)
• MailPlugin (mailbox system and interface for the mail server)
• RedirectPlugin (allows for static redirects)
• BackupDownloaderPlugin (for off-site backup storage)

Planned plugins

• FilesPlugin (file management for admins and interface for a file server)
• GitPlugin (interface for a git server running on the same machine)
• FinancesPlugin (simple finance manager for users)

Used libraries

• Certes to talk to Let's Encrypt
• DnsClient.NET for DNS requests to find mail servers and check mail authentication
• MailKit to decode and encode emails from/to SMTP-compliant messages, send emails on the SMTP level once a suitable mail server for the recipient has been found, and validate DKIM signatures of messages against the keys found in the DNS records
• SmtpServer to listen for incoming emails on the raw SMTP level
• Otp.NET to generate and check time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) for two-factor authentication
• QRCoder to generate QR codes for 2FA setup strings
• Isopoh.Cryptography.Argon2 to hash passwords using Argon2
• IPAddressRange to parse IP address ranges and check whether a given IP address is within that range (used for mail authentication)