reqwest VS Rocket

Compare reqwest vs Rocket and see what are their differences.

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reqwest Rocket
57 155
9,130 23,343
- 1.7%
8.9 8.9
2 days ago 7 days ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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reqwest

Posts with mentions or reviews of reqwest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-18.
  • The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2024
    > If you are equally picky and constrain yourself to parts of the ecosystem which care about binary size, you still have more options and can avoid size issues.

    What's an example of this for, say, libcurl? On my system it has a tiny number of recursive dependencies, around a dozen. [0] Furthermore if I want to write a C program that uses libcurl I have to download zero bytes of data ... because it's a shared library that is already installed on my system, since so many programs already use it.

    I don't really know the appropriate comparison for Rust. reqwest seems roughly comparable, but it's an HTTP client library, and not a general purpose network client like curl. Obviously curl can do a lot more. Even the list of direct dependencies for reqwest is quite long [1], and it's built on top of another http library [2] that has its own long list of dependencies, a list that includes tokio, no small library itself.

    In terms of final binary size, the installed size of the curl package on my system, which includes both the command line tool and development dependencies for libcurl, is 1875.03 KiB.

    [0] I'm excluding the dependency on the ca-certificates package, since this only provides the certificate chain for TLS and lots of programs rely on it.

    [1] https://crates.io/crates/reqwest/0.11.24/dependencies

    [2] https://crates.io/crates/hyper/0.14.28/dependencies

  • What We Need Instead of "Web Components"
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
  • ReductStore 1.6.0 has been released with new license and client SDK for Rust
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023
    ReductStore was rewritten from C++ to Rust a few months ago. We are delighted to be part of the Rust community and have taken a new step towards Rust with the Client SDK. The SDK is powered by reqwest and enables asynchronous integration of the database into Rust applications:
  • Rust dependency woes
    2 projects | /r/rust | 20 Jun 2023
    From what I could turn up when googling the specific error lines (here), it has something to do with the crate mio not having support for WASM, but I don’t understand what’s being said on this thread.
  • Using Auth0 with Tauri
    1 project | dev.to | 7 May 2023
    You can use the tauri-plugin-deep-link crate to register your app as a protocol handler. After you get your code, you can exchange it for an auth token in the same manner as the Electron guide, but for Rust you can use reqwest for the HTTP call.
  • Authentication system using rust (actix-web) and sveltekit - Automated testing
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2023
    When starting out, we made some design decisions at the backend. The decision will allow us to independently test the service without interfering with the real application using a term called integration testing. We'll utilize two "dev" packages: reqwest and fake. Dev dependencies only get introduced into your application in development or during testing. In production, they are not included:
  • How can I save a blob:<url> to my hard disk? Im currently using Rust to scrape a website, however I dont even know if that is possible
    1 project | /r/rust | 22 Apr 2023
    It's possible, you will want to use crates like https://docs.rs/reqwest/ to download the page and https://docs.rs/scraper/ to extract elements from the page.
  • Becoming Rustacean:Awesome Free Online Resources to Learn Rust Programming
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2023
    Rust allows me to mainly only run the application to confirm things work from a business perspective.

    For people starting out building stuff in rust - understand that there is a distinction of async code and libraries and can lead to confusing compiler errors if you don't realize there is a distinction. It's simple in hindsight but did cause me to waste hours barking up the wrong trees at first. Other wise just learn about `match` and Result/Option types asap, they're fundamental.

    https://github.com/http-rs/tide tide is great to create an http server / routes

    https://github.com/djc/askama I use this to template out HTML and it checks all my boxes, dynamic data, passing in functions, control flow.

    https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx sql interface for a variety of backend, async safe.

    https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest http client to make requests

    Rust is amazing, don't let the initial few speed bumps discourage you - building real things with rust is no more challenging today than any other modern language stack.

  • This Month in hyper: March 2023
    3 projects | /r/rust | 7 Apr 2023
    Is there any this month in reqwest? I would like to show my interest in https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/issues/39
  • Reqwest cookies feature not working
    1 project | /r/rust | 3 Apr 2023
    The relevant issue seems to be https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/pull/1753

Rocket

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rocket. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.
  • Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey
    11 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    4. Rocket
  • What is the best library to write a SCADA-like application for web?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 11 Dec 2023
    If you want something simpler/more minimal, you could use https://rocket.rs/ for the backend and handle the front-end however you want.
  • Rocket – Simple, Fast, Type-Safe Web Framework for Rust
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 24 Nov 2023
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 24 Nov 2023
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2023
  • 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.
  • Crux: Cross-platform app development in Rust
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023
    Or else you could of course just use https://rocket.rs/
  • Building a Rust app with Perseus
    8 projects | dev.to | 5 Jul 2023
    Rust is a popular system programming language, known for its robust memory safety features and exceptional performance. While Rust was originally a system programming language, its application has evolved. Now you can see Rust in different app platforms, mobile apps, and of course, in web apps — both in the frontend and backend, with frameworks like Rocket, Axum, and Actix making it even easier to build web applications with Rust.
  • Need recommendations for technologies, frameworks etc. for an IoT device project in Rust
    2 projects | /r/embedded | 22 Jun 2023
    I've done some research but I have to admit that creating embedded devices is a totally new subject for me, but that is the point of the project - main goal is learning, and creating something is the secondary goal, so please bear with me and my knowledge of the subject. So, for the hardware I've seen many people recommending SMT32 family devices, but I've also read that anything with the Cortex-M processor can be suitable. Need more info on that. OS is a hard choice for me because on one hand I was thinking of Ubuntu Core but the device support is not really that good I think, so other options I've found are Tock and RIOT-OS, and I am gravitating towards the latter because it's main focus is on IOT devices. I've found frameworks like Rocket.rs for a web app, tauri.app for desktop app (which might not be needed but I still like the idea). Also found Tokio.rs which apparently will help with the networking. There was a discussion from the other members about using the Golioth cloud platform with Zephyr and C++, and I don't know if there are any other alternatives for Golioth that support Rust, I've found webthings.io but I am not sure if it's an alternative, or something else actually, so I would be happy to learn more about that. Again I want to hear your recommendations regarding anything that will help creating a project like that.
  • Rust for web development
    2 projects | /r/rust | 19 Jun 2023
    I use Rocket on the backend with Postgres. Currently experimenting with Yew for the frontend.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing reqwest and Rocket you can also consider the following projects:

hyper - An HTTP library for Rust

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

curl-rust - Rust bindings to libcurl

axum - Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper

ureq - A simple, safe HTTP client

yew - Rust / Wasm framework for creating reliable and efficient web applications

surf - Fast and friendly HTTP client framework for async Rust

tokio - A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

rust-websocket - A WebSocket (RFC6455) library written in Rust