tonic VS axum

Compare tonic vs axum and see what are their differences.

tonic

A native gRPC client & server implementation with async/await support. (by hyperium)

axum

Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper (by tokio-rs)
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tonic axum
48 150
8,916 16,000
2.9% 5.4%
8.8 9.3
7 days ago 7 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License MIT License
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tonic

Posts with mentions or reviews of tonic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-28.

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.
  • Bundle frontend into axum binary using include_dir
    1 project | dev.to | 14 Apr 2024
    There are some proposals on how to do it already such as https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/issues/1698.
  • 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.
  • How serve static files with rust?
    1 project | /r/rust | 6 Dec 2023
  • 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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

grpc-rust - Rust implementation of gRPC

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

tarpc - An RPC framework for Rust with a focus on ease of use.

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

prost - PROST! a Protocol Buffers implementation for the Rust Language

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

rust-prometheus - Prometheus instrumentation library for Rust applications

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

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

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