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Top 14 Rust web-framework Projects
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Project mention: Ask HN: Why don't browsers load websites directly in WASM? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-08
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InfluxDB
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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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Project mention: Zig, Rust, Go?! I tried 3 low-level languages and here’s what I’m sticking with | dev.to | 2025-08-28
Axum for APIs
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There is https://shuttle.rs. Not only a framework but a tool that can generate all the web boilerplate around it, sounds lazy enough for me!
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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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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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Project mention: WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-12
This looks awesome and we're fans of the terminal aesthetic at terminal trove (1) (we're biased), it's also great that WebTUI has keyboard shortcuts to go with it.
Not CSS but similarly ratzilla (2)(3) also comes to mind, that allows you to build terminal-themed web applications with Rust and WebAssembly.
(1) https://terminaltrove.com/
(2) https://github.com/orhun/ratzilla
(3) https://github.com/orhun/ratzilla?tab=readme-ov-file#example...
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Project mention: Feather: Feather: A web framework that skips Rust's async boilerplate and jus | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-04
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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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rari
Runtime Accelerated Rendering Infrastructure (Rari): High-performance React Server Components framework powered by a Rust runtime, delivering 4x faster performance than Next.js with zero-config setup and universal NPM support.
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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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source web-framework projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | yew | 31,905 |
| 2 | Rocket | 25,347 |
| 3 | axum | 22,935 |
| 4 | shuttle | 6,629 |
| 5 | Seed | 3,836 |
| 6 | Thruster | 1,073 |
| 7 | rwf | 1,046 |
| 8 | ratzilla | 936 |
| 9 | xitca-web | 905 |
| 10 | feather | 695 |
| 11 | ohkami | 257 |
| 12 | rari | 208 |
| 13 | swim | 11 |
| 14 | silent | 6 |
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