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Top 18 Rust Websocket Projects
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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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websocat
Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl) for ws:// with advanced socat-like functions
Having both Worker and Durable Object in place, you can now try running the application (wrangler dev) and connecting to the Websocket route /ws with a Websocket client like websocat: websocat --verbose ws://localhost:8787/ws You should see a response like this indicating that the connection has been established succesfully:
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Project mention: What happens when you make a move in lichess.org? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-23
Along with the reconnect solution already mentioned, you can also decouple your Websocket and business logic layers using something like Pushpin: https://pushpin.org/. This allows you to deploy your business logic layer without disconnecting/reconnecting clients.
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tokio-tungstenite
Future-based Tungstenite for Tokio. Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation
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async-tungstenite
Async binding for Tungstenite, the Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation
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fireside-chat
An LLM interface (chat bot) implemented in pure Rust using HuggingFace/Candle over Axum Websockets, an SQLite Database, and a Leptos (Wasm) frontend packaged with Tauri!
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Project mention: 🚀 Sockudo: Blazing-Fast, Pusher-Compatible WebSockets with Rust! | dev.to | 2025-05-20
git clone https://github.com/RustNSparks/sockudo.git cd sockudo cargo build --release
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fast_websocket_client
A blazing-fast, async-native WebSocket client for Rust, built on top of `fastwebsockets` and `tokio`
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rust_chat_server
A very small, very dumb and very bad chat server to send messages in a common place for every participant.
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remotegamepad-server
A Free and Open source application that turns your mobile device into a remote gamepad for your computer. This is the server.
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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).
Rust Websockets discussion
Rust Websockets related posts
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Rwf: Call for Beta Testers
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WebSocat – Like Netcat for WebSockets
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Show HN: Kiwi – End-to-End Kafka Subscriptions with WebAssembly
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Pushpin: Proxy server that pins connections open to build realtime API endpoints
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How to know when can I send a message via a websocket with tokio tungstenite?
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Show HN: ScaleSocket – Turn any script into a multiplayer WebSocket server
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Help with Minimal Websocket Connection
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Websocket projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | actix-web | 23,109 |
| 2 | websocat | 7,756 |
| 3 | pushpin | 3,756 |
| 4 | ntex | 2,313 |
| 5 | tokio-tungstenite | 2,140 |
| 6 | tungstenite-rs | 2,122 |
| 7 | rwf | 1,043 |
| 8 | async-tungstenite | 414 |
| 9 | ezsockets | 255 |
| 10 | fireside-chat | 134 |
| 11 | ws_stream_wasm | 102 |
| 12 | sockudo | 85 |
| 13 | kiwi | 51 |
| 14 | fast_websocket_client | 24 |
| 15 | kiteticker-async | 14 |
| 16 | mezzenger | 10 |
| 17 | rust_chat_server | 2 |
| 18 | remotegamepad-server | 2 |
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