tomaka/rouille

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1238 stars · 110 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Rouille is a synchronous micro web framework for Rust that listens on a socket, parses HTTP requests, and hands them to your handler code in a linear, middleware-free style. It directly supports web-specific concepts like cookies, CGI, and form input while leaving databases and templating to third-party libraries.

Use cases

• build a small REST API in Rust
• serve a simple website with cookies and form handling
• write an HTTP server without async complexity
• prototype a web backend quickly in Rust
• handle HTTP requests with a thread-per-request model

When to choose

• you want an intuitive, synchronous Rust web framework with minimal boilerplate
• your workload is modest and thread-per-request performance (~22k req/s) is sufficient
• you prefer composing your own database/templating libraries instead of a batteries-included framework

When to avoid

• you need high-concurrency async I/O performance like tokio/hyper
• you want an ecosystem of middlewares like Express-style frameworks
• you're building a large async service with async database clients

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

web-framework http-server routing form-handling web-development backend apis rust windows cross-platform micro-framework synchronous thread-per-request rest http linux macos

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