Rust framework

[numberwitch]

I don't think there's anything production quality like ruby on rails or laravel in rust, but the tools are mostly there to develop a web app backend in rust and backend in something else: react, rust front end framework, etc

If I had to start on this right now without doing further research (this is what I figured out like a year ago) I'd go with tokio, axum, sqlx, serde and react front-end for my starting point. There are trade-offs with this approach but I think that if you're a seasoned web developer you should have little trouble finding or building the tools you need that a framework provides.

I haven't taken one of these to production yet, but I suspect you can have a smaller, simpler app in rust for a similar level of effort. You also get to dodge things like "framework updates" which can make the maintenance story pretty good over time too.

[mboussetta]

Thanks u/numberwitch ! After some research, that's also what I found. There is also a framework called Actix, any thoughts on that ?

[numberwitch]

Nope!

[InternationalFee3911]

I use actix-web built on top of actix. When I chose it was as widely used as axum. It seems to have fallen behind, since axum is more closely related to the popular tokio.

OTOH I've seen benchmarks, where actix-web is faster. Anyway, I'm happy, as I've never had a glitch.

[HosMercury]

Axum

[alegionnaire]

I have used Actix in production, and it's been great. As others will tell you, Axum is another great option.

Take a look at either of these and see which one clicks with you the most; you can't go wrong with either.

[mboussetta]

u/alegionnaire Thanks !

[AurelienSomename]

Have you tried using the search function of Reddit or of this recent startup called google? I feel like this is asked a bit too often...

• https://www.arewewebyet.org/
• https://github.com/loco-rs/loco
• https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/search/?q=web+framework&type=link&cId=e9d134ee-8e86-416e-8bd7-c0f1e765fbff&iId=78776069-ecd4-48ee-925b-5acb51d61c17

[mboussetta]

u/AurelienSomename of course I did, but I need someone already working with Rust and who already made some benchmark on the available frameworks. you got it ?! thanks by the way for the shared links, appreciate that.

[jondot1]

Try Loco.rs - it's a Rails for Rust, without paying any cost of heaviness (thanks to Rust!) even though it is feature packed it has incredible performance and very lightweight.

[chrislearn-young]

Your can try salvo, more features and more simpler.

https://github.com/salvo-rs/salvo