OpenNJet/OpenNJet

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

OpenNJet is a high-performance, lightweight web application and proxy engine written in C, designed as a cloud-native service mesh data plane. It offers dynamic configuration loading, active health checks, cluster high availability, declarative APIs, HTTP3, WAF integration, and a CoPilot framework for extensible control/data plane separation.

Use cases

• replace nginx with a cloud-native proxy engine
• run a service mesh data plane with high performance
• set up an api gateway with dynamic config reload
• load balance http traffic with active health checks
• add a web application firewall to my reverse proxy
• support http3 and chinese national crypto (SM) algorithms
• build a highly available multi-master proxy cluster

When to choose

• you need an nginx-like proxy with dynamic configuration and declarative APIs
• you want a service mesh data plane faster than Envoy
• you need built-in WAF, HTTP3, or Chinese national cryptography support
• you want Lua/Python programmability and a plugin framework

When to avoid

• you need a mature ecosystem with extensive third-party modules like nginx
• your stack is Windows-only
• you prefer Envoy/Istio's standard xDS ecosystem tooling

Facets

application · maturity active

http-server proxy api-gateway service-discovery middleware security monitoring plugin-system web-development backend microservices cloud-computing networking security self-hosted cloud self-hosted nginx-fork reverse-proxy load-balancer service-mesh-data-plane http3 waf chinese-crypto-sm copilot-framework lua-scripting cloud-native linux docker web-server

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