tokio-tungstenite VS regex

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

tokio-tungstenite

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

regex

An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs. (by rust-lang)
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tokio-tungstenite regex
15 91
1,608 3,336
3.9% 1.8%
7.3 9.1
4 months ago 19 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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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.
  • How to know when can I send a message via a websocket with tokio tungstenite?
    1 project | /r/rust | 9 Dec 2023
    I can't help you debug your code if you do not provide it. Have you looked at the example client?
  • 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.
  • 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

regex

Posts with mentions or reviews of regex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.
  • Zed is now open source
    26 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
    The homepage has a benchmark that compares Zed's "insertion latency" to other editors, and this is the description:

    > Open input.rs at the end of line 21 in rust-lang/regex. Type z 10 times, measure how long it takes for each z to display since hitting the z key.

    Could someone clarify what that means? My interpretation of that was to go to https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/blob/master/regex-cli/arg... and start typing 'z' at the end of line 21, but that doesn't seem to make any sense. I guess that repo got refactored and those instructions are out of date?

  • CryptoFlow: Building a secure and scalable system with Axum and SvelteKit - Part 3
    3 projects | dev.to | 8 Jan 2024
    We also used the avenue to sluggify the question title. We used regex to fish out and replace all occurrences of punctuation and symbol characters with an empty string and using the itertools crate, we joined the words back together into a single string, where each word is separated by a hyphen ("-").
  • Command Line Rust is a great book
    4 projects | /r/rust | 8 Dec 2023
    Command-Line Rust taught me how to use crates like clap, assert_cmd, and regex. I felt lost before because I didn't know about Rust's ecosystem--which is arguably as important as the language itself. Also, looking up and comparing libraries is a tiring task! blessed.rs is nice but Command-Line Rust really saved me from analysis paralysis.
  • Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023
    burntsushi actually regrets making regex replace return a Cow: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/issues/676#issuecomment-6.... I’m glad it does, and wish it took an impl Into> there, for the reasons discussed in the issue, but burntsushi has a lot more experience of the practical outcomes of this. Just something more to think about.
  • Advent of Code 2023 is nigh
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2023
    I'm not familiar with the AoC problem. You might be able to. But RegexSet doesn't give you match offsets.

    You can drop down to regex-automata, which does let you do multi-regex search and it will tell you which patterns match[1]. The docs have an example of a simple lexer[2]. But... that will only give you non-overlapping matches.

    You can drop down to an even lower level of abstraction and get multi-pattern overlapping matches[3], but it's awkward. The comment there explains that I had initially tried to provide a higher level API for it, but was unsure of what the semantics should be. Getting the starting position in particular is a bit of a wrinkle.

    [1]: https://docs.rs/regex-automata/latest/regex_automata/meta/in...

    [2]: https://docs.rs/regex-automata/latest/regex_automata/meta/st...

    [3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/blob/837fd85e79fac2a4ea64...

  • Text Showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2023
    It’s not quite that simple, but folks are working on it.

    https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/issues/425#issuecomment-1...

    https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/211#issuecomment-...

  • Please ask questions (rust-lang/regex)
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 30 Aug 2023
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2023
  • ScripterC - Rust-lang set
    2 projects | /r/scripterc | 13 Aug 2023
    Dependencies used: - regex - unicode_reader - rust decimal - tokio
  • Regex Engine Internals as a Library
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2023
    https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall19/cos226/l... and https://kean.blog/post/lets-build-regex are excellent introductions to implementing a (very) simplified regex engine: construct a nondetermistic finite state automaton for the regex, then perform a graph search on the resulting digraph; if the vertex corresponding to your end state is reachable, you have a match.

    I think this exercise is valuable for anyone writing regexes to not only understand that there's less magic than one might think, but also to visualize a bunch of balls bouncing along an NFA - that bug you inevitably hit in production due to catastrophic backtracking now takes on a physical meaning!

    Separately re: the OP, https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/issues/822 (and specifically BurntSushi's comment at the very end of the issue) adds really useful context to the paragraph in the OP about niche APIs: https://blog.burntsushi.net/regex-internals/#problem-request... - searching with multiple regexes simultaneously against a text is both incredibly complex and incredibly useful, and I can't wait to see what the community comes up with for this pattern!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tokio-tungstenite and regex you can also consider the following projects:

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

re2 - modern regular expression syntax everywhere with a painless upgrade path [Moved to: https://github.com/SonOfLilit/kleenexp]

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

node-re2 - node.js bindings for RE2: fast, safe alternative to backtracking regular expression engines.

reqwest - An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Client

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

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

ngrams - (Read-only) Generate n-grams

tangle - Radically simple multiplayer / networked WebAssembly

regex-benchmark - It's just a simple regex benchmark of different programming languages.

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

whatlang-rs - Natural language detection library for Rust. Try demo online: https://whatlang.org/