axum VS poem

Compare axum vs poem and see what are their differences.

axum

Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper (by tokio-rs)

poem

A full-featured and easy-to-use web framework with the Rust programming language. (by poem-web)
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axum poem
149 30
15,646 3,141
6.2% 4.0%
9.3 8.8
6 days ago 4 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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axum

Posts with mentions or reviews of axum. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-21.
  • Prodzilla: From Zero to Prod with Rust and Shuttle
    6 projects | dev.to | 21 Feb 2024
    Moreover, I especially like where Rust is right now in the web space. It really feels like there’s a lot of smart people working on the next generation of web development tools - it feels like the place to be. There are a range of great open-source web dev tools that are just reaching critical levels of maturity. Axum, which I used to build Prodzilla, feels ready for out of the box web dev, and is crazy-performant, as I write about later. More recently available is Loco, a Rails-like framework for building web applications in Rust that's picking up steam. And in dev-tooling and hosting there’s Shuttle, a 1-line hosting solution for Rust backends.
  • CryptoFlow: Building a secure and scalable system with Axum and SvelteKit - Part 1
    3 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2024
    CryptoFlow is a full-stack web application built with Axum and SvelteKit. It's a Q&A system tailored towards the world of cryptocurrency!
  • Cryptoflow: Building a secure and scalable system with Axum and SvelteKit - Part 0
    12 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2024
    You also get to specify the accepted HTTP method of the URL via axum::routing. To answer its name, modularity, Axum also supports nested routes as we'll see later in this series. Next is the layer, a method used to apply tower::Layer to all routes before it. This means that routes added after the layer method will not have such a layer applied to their requests. In our case, we used the layer to add tracing to all HTTP requests and responses to our routes. This is needed for proper logging. The tower_http::trace::TraceLayer can even be really customised.
  • My first project with rust
    3 projects | /r/rust | 8 Dec 2023
    I build simple rust axum api server with Prisma client rust. This is my something done with rust and I really enjoyed rust!
  • Getting Started with Axum - Rust's Most Popular Framework
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Dec 2023
    In this article we'll take a comprehensive look at how to use Axum to write a web service. This will also include the 0.7 changes.
  • Trying out Leptos: Fine-grained Reactive Framework for Rust
    4 projects | dev.to | 18 Oct 2023
    You have a couple of options for the underlying web framework to pair with Leptos: Axum or Actix. Axum seems to carry more favour currently, so we start with that. Assuming you already have Rust set up on your system:
  • Help required: Port kellnr from rocket.rs to axum
    2 projects | /r/rust | 6 Oct 2023
    I’m the author of https://kellnr.io. When I started working on Kellnr three years ago, https://rocket.rs was “the web framework” to use. Unfortunately, the project seems dead. Before adding more functionality using an unmaintained framework, I want to port Kellnr to https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum.
  • Grimoire - A recipe management application.
    7 projects | /r/rust | 5 Oct 2023
    Web Framework : axum.
  • Proper type for axum SSE stream
    2 projects | /r/learnrust | 29 Sep 2023
    I am trying to stream a response from the OpenAI API as an SSE with axum. I have combined the following examples from the async-openai and axum repos to produce the below code I've used iterators in Rust but have not used streams, I have no idea how to reconcile the types here and don't know where to start to solve the problem. A solution or any pointers would be greatly appreciated. https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/tree/axum-v0.6.20/examples/sse https://github.com/64bit/async-openai/tree/main/examples/chat-stream ``rust async fn sse_handler( TypedHeader(user_agent): TypedHeader, ) -> Sse>> { println!("{}` connected", user_agent.as_str());
  • Introduction to the Tower library
    2 projects | dev.to | 23 Aug 2023
    -- axum README

poem

Posts with mentions or reviews of poem. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024
    TypeSpec is great, but if you're working with Rust and you're about to write a new project that will require an OpenApi spec sooner or later, I'd like to recommend a web framework that has spec generation baked in:

    https://github.com/poem-web/poem (see poem_openapi)

    All you need to do is derive a trait on your response structs and in return you get an almost perfectly generated spec. Unions, objects, enums are first class citizens.

    Also, if you're from coming from PHP, the controllers feel very much like symfony controllers.

    P.s. Please do recommend an ORM that would feel closer to doctrine. I miss doctrine.

  • What is the best API generator for Axum?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 9 Apr 2023
    I've used FastAPI/Pydantic before as well and it was a very good experience. It has been a while since I used them though, so I forget exactly how they compare, but I do recall it wrote most of the OpenAPI spec. for you. I will also agree when I saw utoipa and aide they seemed to require more boilerplate even though I have not done an actual comparison. Poem, on the other hand, seems very neat and clean and doesn't have any duplication that I can see. Here is the [TODO example](https://github.com/poem-web/poem/blob/master/examples/openapi/todos/src/main.rs).
  • Looking for a Rust API with automatic documentation and good validation?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 5 Mar 2023
    The example at https://github.com/poem-web/poem/tree/master/examples/openapi/auth-apikey works without issues for me.
  • Rest API framework in rust
    2 projects | /r/rust | 5 Feb 2023
    If you need built-in OpenAPI support, I can recommend Poem.
  • (Recommendation Request) Rust REST API framework; similar to Python's FastAPI(Python)
    3 projects | /r/rust | 21 Jan 2023
    If OpenAPI is important, then you may to consider https://github.com/poem-web/poem instead of axum. It isn't nearly as widely used, but it should still be compatible with everything else.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (3/2023)!
    12 projects | /r/rust | 16 Jan 2023
    Poem: More rigid and less popular and aims to be easier https://github.com/poem-web/poem
  • A taste of pavex, an upcoming Rust web framework
    3 projects | /r/rust | 24 Dec 2022
    Did you check out Poem? It seems promising, with openapi generation built in already.
  • I switch from Golang and want to build a REST API in Rust.
    6 projects | /r/rust | 22 Dec 2022
    https://github.com/poem-web/poem is a pretty nice framework
  • Migrating from warp to axum
    2 projects | /r/rust | 23 Nov 2022
    I recently been working with warp and stumbled upon poem framework (https://github.com/poem-web/poem), any thoughts about that? Considering Axum as well but staying a bit on cautionary side until 0.6 full release.
  • Any Rust based forum software?
    16 projects | /r/rust | 28 Oct 2022
    If one were to undertake a project of developing something like this, which is the best web framework for it. I did some cursory research and discovered these back-end frameworks - actix, axum, poem, salvo, warp, gotham and rocket.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing axum and poem you can also consider the following projects:

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

warp - A super-easy, composable, web server framework for warp speeds.

rust-web-framework-comparison - A comparison of some web frameworks and libs written in Rust

rust-web-benchmarks - Benchmarking web frameworks written in rust with rewrk tool.

ntex - framework for composable networking services

salvo - A powerful web framework built with a simplified design.

tonic - A native gRPC client & server implementation with async/await support.

Warp - Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.

hyper-tls

sea-orm - 🐚 An async & dynamic ORM for Rust