tower VS Tide

Compare tower vs Tide and see what are their differences.

tower

async fn(Request) -> Result<Response, Error> (by tower-rs)

Tide

Fast and friendly HTTP server framework for async Rust (by http-rs)
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tower Tide
14 30
3,258 4,954
2.6% 1.0%
2.1 6.6
13 days ago 4 months ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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tower

Posts with mentions or reviews of tower. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-07.
  • Collection of trait implementations with associated types (GATs?)
    1 project | /r/rust | 15 Feb 2023
    This question is partially inspired by this PR which is kinda trying to do the same thing.
  • dd-trace-layer - A web application middleware for sending Datadog's trace
    3 projects | /r/rust | 7 Oct 2022
    dd-trace-layer is a middleware for sending Datadog's trace. It's based on Tower and OpenTelemetry Rust.
  • GCP firestore and logging SDK in rust
    3 projects | /r/rust | 6 Oct 2022
    I'm pretty sure that GCP's APIs (unlike AWS, which uses Smithy for very genuinely, very good reason) are defined using Protobuf and can be communicated with over gRPC, which means that you don't need to bind via cxx to GCP's C++ APIs. Take a look at this example using Tonic. If you're to use Tonic, you'll also be able to use Tower's middleware (main crate, http-specific) to implement retries, timeouts, tracing, and all the other things you need to be production-ready.
  • Which Rust web framework to choose in 2022 (with code examples)
    7 projects | dev.to | 27 Sep 2022
    #[derive(Clone)] struct MyMiddleware { inner: S, } impl Service> for MyMiddleware where S: Service, Response = Response> + Clone + Send + 'static, S::Future: Send + 'static, { type Response = S::Response; type Error = S::Error; type Future = BoxFuture<'static, Result>; fn poll_ready(&mut self, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll> { self.inner.poll_ready(cx) } fn call(&mut self, mut req: Request) -> Self::Future { println!("before"); // best practice is to clone the inner service like this // see https://github.com/tower-rs/tower/issues/547 for details let clone = self.inner.clone(); let mut inner = std::mem::replace(&mut self.inner, clone); Box::pin(async move { let res: Response = inner.call(req).await?; println!("after"); Ok(res) }) } } fn main() { let app = Router::new() .route("/", get(|| async { /* ... */ })) .layer(layer_fn(|inner| MyMiddleware { inner })); }
  • How to schedule and run cron jobs in Rust using apalis
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Aug 2022
    For this tutorial, we're going to use apalis to run cron jobs in an async context. We will also look at how to decorate our jobs with tower middleware allowing us to unlock features like retries, prometheus, sentry etc
  • Warp or Rocket.rs or Actix Web?
    8 projects | /r/rust | 29 May 2022
    So I have now had a look at Axum and think I will give it a try. In the readme in the repository it says something about tower or tower::Service and tonic, what exactly is that? I do not understand that yet.
  • tower-lsp 0.16.0 — Lightweight framework for building LSP servers
    2 projects | /r/rust | 11 Mar 2022
    Better compatibility with tower ecosystem.
  • ratpack: a simpleton's HTTP framework
    6 projects | /r/rust | 24 Jan 2022
    ratpack is idealized in the simplicity of the sinatra (ruby) framework in its goal, and attempts to be an alternative to other async HTTP frameworks such as tower, warp, axum, and tide.
  • When and how to use traits?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 21 Aug 2021
    i would browse the standard library, tower, nom, or my own bitvec to see layout and trait/record separation. in particular, std::io and std::net may be of use: io::Read and io::Write are pervasive examples of implementing unixy file-descriptor-like behavior in the type system
  • I could use some help!
    2 projects | /r/learnrust | 15 Jul 2021
    We're not there yet. I keep an eye on Tower which looks promising to build on top of. And I keep an eye on MoonZoon (full stack framework, unashamedly opinionated!).

Tide

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tide. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-26.
  • Latest Zen Kernel......
    5 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 26 May 2023
    Rust has several, production ready, REST API frame works.
  • Which Web Framework do people recommend for Rust in 2023?
    5 projects | /r/rust | 12 Apr 2023
  • 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.

  • Use of Salvo for a REST Api
    2 projects | /r/rust | 27 Feb 2023
    https://crates.io/crates/salvo - 581k all time and peak daily of ~2750 in last few months https://crates.io/crates/rocket - 2.68mil all-time / ~6200 daily https://crates.io/crates/actix-web - 9.8mil all-time / ~21k daily https://crates.io/crates/axum - 8.8mil all-time / 64k daily https://crates.io/crates/warp - 7.9mil all-time and 19k daily https://crates.io/crates/tide - 886k all-time / 2250 daily
  • Why this works?
    1 project | /r/rust | 31 Jan 2023
    Hi, guys, how you doing? I'm trying out this web framework Tide just to make a toy project and learn more about Rust. The create_payment_handler function is called by the framework whenever there is a POST request to /payment/ containing a JSON body with the payment information.
  • Which Rust web framework to choose in 2022 (with code examples)
    7 projects | dev.to | 27 Sep 2022
    tide
  • Is Rust good choice for the backend of any mobile application?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 10 Sep 2022
    I'm developing the backend of https://www.cozydate.com/ in Rust. Async Rust is not productive yet, so I tried rouille http server which lets me write non-async request handlers. Unfortunately, it uses an unbounded thread pool and falls down under load https://github.com/tiny-http/tiny-http/issues/221 . Then I tried Tide and a threadpool to call my non-async API handlers. This worked, but was really ugly, and I had issues with uploads after deploying to Heroku https://github.com/http-rs/tide/issues/878 .
  • Ask HN: Anyone using Rust for server side application development?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2022
  • Web framework in production - Rocket v Actix
    1 project | /r/rust | 17 Aug 2022
    You could also habe a look at tide apparently it is stable and production ready.
  • Tide - Fast and friendly http server framework for async rust
    1 project | /r/github_trends | 2 Aug 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tower and Tide 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.

tower-lsp - Language Server Protocol implementation written in Rust

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

tower-http - HTTP specific Tower utilities.

yourcontrols - Shared cockpit for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

bitvec - A crate for managing memory bit by bit

Nickel - An expressjs inspired web framework for Rust

apalis - Simple, extensible multithreaded background job and message processing library for Rust

The FastCGI Rust implementation. - Native Rust library for FastCGI

h2 - HTTP 2.0 client & server implementation for Rust.