tokio-tungstenite VS axum

Compare tokio-tungstenite vs axum and see what are their differences.

tokio-tungstenite

Future-based Tungstenite for Tokio. Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation (by snapview)

axum

Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper (by tokio-rs)
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tokio-tungstenite axum
15 149
1,579 15,646
4.1% 6.2%
7.3 9.3
3 months ago 5 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License MIT License
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tokio-tungstenite

Posts with mentions or reviews of tokio-tungstenite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.
  • Yet another Web-Socket implementation in rust.
    5 projects | /r/rust | 27 Mar 2023
    It passed all test of the autobahn testsuite And web-socket-benchmark show about 3x faster then tokio-tungstenite
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (7/2023)!
    14 projects | /r/rust | 13 Feb 2023
    There are example files in the tokio-tungstenite crate called `autobahn-client.rs` and `autobahn-server.rs`. Why are they called autobahn? I googled and can't understand what autobahn is all about. Is it a websocket pattern? Or some protocol?
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (5/2023)!
    19 projects | /r/rust | 30 Jan 2023
    I'm using another crate that requires tls, specifically tokio-tungstenite, I'll try your suggestions later today once I get home
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (3/2023)!
    12 projects | /r/rust | 16 Jan 2023
    Tokio-tungstenite - It looks like in this example, it's spamming the task thread with wakeup calls from all of the active connections. This design choice makes me doubt that this was well written in general.
  • Should i use ws-rs?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 21 Aug 2022
    tokio-tungstenite is the more popular library. In frameworks, offhand Axum supports websockets (docs, example)
  • How would you refactor this code to use std's Mutex instead of Tokio's mutex
    2 projects | /r/rust | 21 Aug 2022
    If you only have one task sending data to the sink, you probably don't need forward, as you can just write to the sink directly (you might not even need to split the stream in the first place, but i'm not sure about that). But often you want to write to the sink from different tasks (e.g. this example takes messages sent from one websocket connection, and broadcasts it onto every other connected websocket, so the sink for each websocket needs to be accessed by every other websocket handler task), and you can't do that with only the sink as you can't clone it. Either need to wrap it into a Mutex and clone that around the different tasks (and lock it every time you need to write to it, like OP did originally) or you can use forward to map the rx (receiver) of a channel to the sink, and clone the tx (sender) part of the channel for each task that wants to write to the sink. That way, you only have one task that is accessing the sink directly, so no issues with synchronization.
    2 projects | /r/rust | 21 Aug 2022
    Yep, I assumed as much. in my example code the ws_stream is what you would get from tokio_tungstenite::accept_async. This example from the tungstenite repo shows using the forward method.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (30/2022)!
    12 projects | /r/rust | 25 Jul 2022
    Has anyone worked with websockets before? Particularly with the tokio-tungstenite crate? I'm getting a Protocol(ResetWithoutClosingHandshake) error in my request. I send in some text, and i'm supposed to receive an audio file back.
  • What's the best production-grade websocket library in Rust?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 10 Jul 2022
    tokio-tungstenite
  • help using async websocket using tokio-tungstenite
    2 projects | /r/rust | 24 May 2022
    i based my code mostly on the client example from the tokio-tungstenite project: https://github.com/snapview/tokio-tungstenite/blob/master/examples/client.rs

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tokio-tungstenite and axum 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.

poem - A full-featured and easy-to-use web framework with the Rust programming language.

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.

async-tungstenite - Async binding for Tungstenite, the Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation

hyper-tls