mtrudel/bandit

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1915 stars · 117 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Bandit is a pure Elixir HTTP server for Plug and WebSock applications, supporting HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2, and WebSockets over HTTP and HTTPS. It is the default HTTP server for Phoenix since 1.7.11 and emphasizes correctness, clarity, and performance.

Use cases

• serve a Phoenix or Plug web application in Elixir
• replace Cowboy with a faster HTTP server for Elixir apps
• serve WebSocket connections from an Elixir backend
• host an HTTP/2-compliant API server
• run an HTTPS server with strong RFC conformance
• build a lightweight Elixir web server without Erlang Cowboy

When to choose

• you are building a Plug or Phoenix application in Elixir
• you need HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2, and WebSocket support with high conformance
• you want better HTTP performance than Cowboy in benchmarks
• you value an approachable, well-tested codebase

When to avoid

• you need a general-purpose HTTP server outside the Plug/WebSock ecosystem
• your stack is not Elixir/Erlang
• you require extensive HTTP-level configuration or proxy features

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-server websocket routing web-development backend apis elixir plug phoenix http2 http1 cowboy-alternative thousand-island web-server

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