State of Rust for web backends

1. sea-orm

   1 83 8,204 9.5 Rust

   🐚 An async & dynamic ORM for Rust

   

   There's SeaORM. (Which is built on top of SQLx if you prefer something more like SQLAlchemy's query builder layer without its ORM layer.)

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. mux

   2 92 17,948 2.6 Go

   Discontinued A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍

   

   popular libraries looking for new maintainers and getting eventually archived ( https://github.com/gorilla/mux )

4. aws-lambda-rust-runtime

   3 33 3,465 7.6 Rust

   A Rust runtime for AWS Lambda

   

   Hi, maybe check out https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime there's some examples in there.. But essentially you can build a Lambda function and deploy to your AWS account with this toolset.

5. Rocket

   4 162 25,133 7.6 Rust

   A web framework for Rust.

   

   I am the solo developer of two web applications which use backends (and frontends, I guess) written in Rust. I cannot recommend Rust highly enough for solo developers, even beginners in Rust. The first one uses Rocket, and it was my first real project where I really learned how to use Rust and get the most out of it in this domain. I'm still pretty happy with Rocket and enjoy developing on top of it, however I would not use it for a new project today.

6. actix-web

   5 180 22,932 9.3 Rust

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

   

   The second one uses Actix and I'm still very happily developing on top of it today. Actix these days is my go-to for any web backend that needs to be written in Rust.

7. tokio

   6 219 28,618 9.5 Rust

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

   

   I started using axum earlier this year, it's a relatively young project, but builds on the shoulders of more established giants like tokio, hyper and tower, both enabling use of a wider ecosystem of utilities for your services (tower and tower-http provide already pretty common services/layers you might need).

8. hyper

   7 108 15,237 8.2 Rust

   An HTTP library for Rust (by hyperium)

   

   I started using axum earlier this year, it's a relatively young project, but builds on the shoulders of more established giants like tokio, hyper and tower, both enabling use of a wider ecosystem of utilities for your services (tower and tower-http provide already pretty common services/layers you might need).

9. SaaSHub

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10. diesel

    8 89 13,355 9.8 Rust

    A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust

    

    I've been building a relatively small project with axum and diesel, and I'm pretty happy with it.

11. routerify

    9 7 391 0.0 Rust

    A lightweight, idiomatic, composable and modular router implementation with middleware support for the Rust HTTP library hyper.rs

    

    You can checkout an example AWS Lambda entrypoint for an HTTP library Routerify (very similar to Axum) here: https://github.com/routerify/routerify/blob/master/examples/aws_lambda.rs

12. filter

    10 18 850 0.0 Go

    Simple apply/filter/reduce package.

    

    Also since generators are mentioned I recently came across this rob pike moment, he implemented a reduce function that takes and returns all interface{} types and uses reflection to check if the call is valid at runtime - that's the most typical Go that can ever be written in 40 lines - all that to make the point that it's useless. Such a great spirit. https://github.com/robpike/filter

13. lettre

    11 10 2,026 8.7 Rust

    a mailer library for Rust

    

    lettre is the mails crate I'm hoping to use soon.

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