Rouille, Rust web server middleware Alternatives

Rouille, Rust web server middleware reviews and mentions

• Exploring the top Rust web frameworks
  23 projects | dev.to | 3 Jun 2025

  Rouille is a microweb framework that employs a linear request and response design via a listening socket that parses HTTP requests.

• Rouille, a Rust web micro-framework
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2023
• Async rust – are we doing it all wrong?
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023

  Your CRUD web application server almost certainly doesn't need async Rust. Using a blocking HTTP server is not "might be a good idea", it simply is a good idea.

  I recommend Rouille for this: https://github.com/tomaka/rouille. In case you are worried about performance, check the benchmark. Blocking Rouille is faster than builtin async server in Node.js.

• Best backend web frameworks with blocking io (i.e. not async)?
  1 project | /r/rust | 23 Mar 2023

  As you say, the majority of the web ecosystem in Rust has moved to async - but if you’re happy to stray a bit from the beaten path then rouille might do the trick.

• An Express-inspired web framework for Rust
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2022

  In strongly typed languages like Rust, composing smaller libraries is usually quite painless, so you don't need a large framework.

  Personally for backend Rust I use rouille[0] for the server (it's very simple and async-free), askama[1] for compile-time HTML templates and (if a SPA is unavoidable, as that is of course always to be avoided if at all possible) yew[2] for client-side WASM.

  Now this stack is what I like personally, but there are many options that you can combine, some more full-featured than others. Check out https://www.arewewebyet.org/ for a partial overview.

  [0]: https://github.com/tomaka/rouille

  [1]: https://github.com/djc/askama

  [2]: https://yew.rs/

• Which Rust web framework to choose in 2022 (with code examples)
  7 projects | dev.to | 27 Sep 2022

  rouille

  9 projects | /r/rust | 23 Feb 2022

  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.

• Hey rustaceans, which web framework you guys suggest for a small application?
  7 projects | /r/rust | 27 Jul 2022

  I don't have any Rust-relevant experience here, but if I wanted to build a web server in Rust and was okay with "reasonable" performance, I'd probably give rouille a try first.

• The Rustacean way to build a complete web app?
  3 projects | /r/rust | 2 May 2022

  Rouille is fairly solid in my experience. Save the pain of async and spend it building software that works. Honestly with Rust's lack of GC you get predictable response times already.

• Des avis sur mon cadeau?
  1 project | /r/rance | 27 Dec 2021
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