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Top 8 Rust web-development Projects
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Rocket has evolved into a highly usable, performant framework with active development and over 25k GitHub stars. Here is a simple example of a Rocket server that takes two query parameters and returns a Happy Birthday message:
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Actix Web is a production-grade, high-performance Rust web framework built on the actor model. It’s one of the most mature frameworks in the ecosystem and is known for its blazing speed, extensibility, and feature richness — though it may present a steeper learning curve compared to Axum or Rocket.
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Thruster is a fast, middleware-based Rust web framework inspired by the layering and design of Koa and Express.js. It is SSL-ready, secure, intuitive, and testable. Thruster is built to accommodate async/await and provides support for middleware, error handling, databases, and testing. Thruster is as young as the Rouille framework and the community is not very big yet. Here is a quick Happy Birthday code overview of how Thruster works:
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oxide-auth
A OAuth2 server library, for use in combination with actix or other frontends, featuring a set of configurable and pluggable backends.
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Another related submission from today:
Ryde: A Rust Web Framework - https://github.com/swlkr/ryde (October 2024, 5 comments)
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Project mention: Show HN: Ohkami v0.24 – A runtime-flexible web framework for Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-29
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Sevalla
Deploy and host your apps and databases, now with $50 credit! Sevalla is the PaaS you have been looking for! Advanced deployment pipelines, usage-based pricing, preview apps, templates, human support by developers, and much more!
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lewp-rs
Generate your HTML5 website technically optimized and always valid without losing the algorithmic comfort and flexibility.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Rust web-development discussion
Rust web-development related posts
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Show HN: Ohkami v0.24 – A runtime-flexible web framework for Rust
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Rusty Backends
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Actix Web - The Rust Framework for Web Development - Hello World
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Show HN: Hosting my website using my own C web server
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Actix-Web: v4.8.0
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Actix-Web: v4.6.0
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Building a REST API for Math Operations (+, *, /) with Rust, Actix, and Rhai🦀
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 1 Sep 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source web-development projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rocket | 25,347 |
| 2 | actix-web | 23,484 |
| 3 | Thruster | 1,073 |
| 4 | oxide-auth | 744 |
| 5 | ryde | 322 |
| 6 | ohkami | 257 |
| 7 | rocket_auth | 79 |
| 8 | lewp-rs | 43 |
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