Released in 2010 by Mozilla as a project to develop a safer, faster, and more concurrent alternative to C and C++, Rust has gained widespread popularity among developers for its ability to offer the speed and low-level control of these languages while also providing modern language features and safety guarantees. After C and Assembly, Rust was added to the Linux kernel in 2022 as the third programming language. Since Rust has many use cases and developers recognise its potential, it is a valuable language to learn. 

Let’s see what the different web frameworks built on Rust are.

Rocket

To begin with, Rocket is a user-friendly and customisable web framework for Rust that focuses on speed and is suitable for both experienced and novice developers. It generates code automatically, removing the need for unnecessary code writing. Additionally, it makes sure that all the types in a given request are validated and can be processed seamlessly. It also streamlines handling new requests by automatically converting them into HTTP responses. Rocket is an asynchronous web framework emphasising security, performance, flexibility, and usability. Other features include async streams, an easy-to-use testing library, and extensibility, and it is also entirely type-safe.

Actix Web

Actix Web and Rocket are the most preferred frameworks of developers. It offers type safety and fast performance and is stable as it runs on the most recent, stable Rust build, while Rocket works on Rust Nightly. Actix is a great option for secure, efficient, and simple web development. Actix Web includes features like SSL support, WebSockets, and Tokio compatibility and is compatible with HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2.

Axum 

Adding to the list is Axum, a lightweight and asynchronous web application framework that milks Rust’s memory safety and performance capabilities to build scalable and reliable web services. Key features include asynchronous request handling, middleware, flexible routing and type-safe handlers. Axum is also compatible with Rust libraries such as serde, SQLx, and tracing. It is ideal for building high-performance web applications, microservices, APIs, and real-time applications.

Seed

Seed is a frontend framework with an Elm-like architecture for generating dependable and performance-driven web apps. It requires minimum boilerplate and configuration.

Tauri

Tauri is another framework to offer fast and compact binaries for major desktop operating systems. Engineers can use any frontend framework that compiles to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to build the user interface. At the same time, the backend is a Rust-generated binary with an API for front-end communication. Tauri offers an array of features, including app storage, tray, plugin system, bundler, GitHub action, native notifications, scoped filesystem, self-updater, and sidecar.

Yew

Programmers who want to create web apps with WebAssembly and a familiar framework design prefer Yew as it offers component-based development, performance-boosting multithreading, and full JavaScript interoperability. Yew is a powerful framework that can make internal tools with Rust’s efficiency and memory safety. It includes a macro for defining interactive HTML, minimises DOM API calls, and allows offloading of processing to background web workers. Yew is compatible with NPM packages and works with all major modern browsers, using its own virtual-DOM representation.

Dioxus

Finally, we have Dioxus, which is used in creating cross-platform user interfaces. It supports creating web, mobile, desktop, TUI, and liveview apps with a component-based architecture, react-like design, and features such as props, state management, and an error handler. Dioxus is renderer agnostic and comprises inline documentation, memory efficiency, and a multi-channel asynchronous scheduler.