Which Rust web framework to choose in 2022 (with code examples)

• Rocket

  156 23,398 8.9 Rust

  A web framework for Rust.

  

Agree, but takes some getting used to. The actor system can feel like magic at the beginning. Sometimes it can be easier on devs to use something like https://rocket.rs/

• examples

  29 3,562 9.4 Rust

  Community showcase and examples of Actix ecosystem usage. (by actix)

  

Example from official repo

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• actix-web

  171 20,290 9.1 Rust

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

  

Official homepage

• vial

  3 202 0.0 Rust

  🧪 a micro micro-framework for rust

All of these web frameworks are extremely heavy-weight, with hundreds of dependencies. Sometimes I wish there was more investment in lighter frameworks like https://github.com/xvxx/vial

• axum

  150 16,204 9.2 Rust

  Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper

  

• jelly-actix-web-starter

  15 225 0.0 Rust

  Discontinued A starter template for actix-web projects that feels very Django-esque. Avoid the boring stuff and move faster.

  

• warp

  66 9,158 6.4 Rust

  A super-easy, composable, web server framework for warp speeds. (by seanmonstar)

Here warp for example.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• poem

  30 3,219 8.8 Rust

  A full-featured and easy-to-use web framework with the Rust programming language.

  

Cool! Lots of cross pollination going on between the frameworks 😊 I originally got the idea for axum's middleware::from_fn from poem.

• Rouille, Rust web server middleware

  15 1,076 1.0 Rust

  Web framework in Rust (by tomaka)

I'd like to put in a word for a simple, sync framework such as rouille. The compile times are much, much better, the number of dependencies is much smaller, the stuff it's built on (the standard library) is extensively tested and extremely reliable. Kernel context switches are slower than userspace thread scheduling, but not much slower, and as long as your services aren't just shoving bytes from one place to another (i.e. actually doing some computation) the time taken for a context switch vanishes into noise. A lot of benchmarks test how quickly a web service can move bytes, which (if your business logic is non-trivial) actually isn't the most critical factor.

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