Kickstart Specifications

Kickstart for Appweb is an ESP application that includes the following components:

• Appweb HTTP web server — requires Appweb commercial license
• ESP Web Framework
• VueJS client-side Javascript framework
• Documentation
• Samples
• Source code
• Open source free MIT license

UI Components

• User management
• User login
• Property edit
• Alert notification
• Event log
• Dashboard
• Dynamic tables and graphs using WebSockets
• Paged Data Tables
• Navigation
• Search
• Help
• Granular access control per page

Security

• Best practices security configuration
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• Secure user login
• Password storage with Blowfish hashing and salting
• Granular access control per-page or per URI
• Sandboxed resource limits
• Defensive counter-measures for DOS attacks
• Access and access violation logging
• Content Security Policy to minimize cross-site scripting
• CrossOrigin sharing support
• Hidden frame hijack prevention
• Hardened against Crime, Breach, Beast and Lucky 13 exploits
• Executes with minimal privilege in Chroot jail
• Safe portable runtime to protect against memory leaks and buffer overflows
• Angel monitoring process

Performance

• Highly responsive UI with sub-second transitions
• Excellent request throughput and scaling
• Small memory footprint even under heavy load (from 3MB including SSL, database and entire applications)
• HTML, Javascript and stylesheets minified, compiled and compressed into a single file
• Data interchange with server via optimized JSON requests and responses

Pre-integrated Components

• VueJS client-side Javascript library
• Vuetify Material Design look and feel
• Themeable SASS style sheets

Developer Support

• HTTP server and client libraries
• Transparent recompilation of ESP code
• Extensive C, Javascript APIs
• Extensive debug trace logging
• Select and customize CSS themes

Documentation

• Full C API Documentation
• Tutorials

Platform Support

• Linux
• Windows
• MAC OSX
• VxWorks
• FreeBSD

Embedding Support

• Supports ARM, MIPS, X86/X86_64, PPC, SH, Sparc processors
• Full cross-compilation support. Use Windows, Linux or Mac as build system.
• Fine-grained control for conditional build and compilation
• Build statically or shared
• Execute from ROM. Supports XIP.

Standards

• HTTP/1.1, and HTTP/2 RFC 2616
• WebSockets RFC 6455