housleyjk/ws-rs

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1497 stars · 220 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

WS-RS is a lightweight, event-driven WebSocket library for Rust implementing RFC 6455 on top of MIO. It handles multiple connections on a single thread and offers both high-level and low-level frame access, with SSL and permessage-deflate support.

Use cases

• build a websocket server in rust
• implement a websocket client for real-time messaging
• handle many websocket connections on one thread
• add websocket support to a rust application
• write a websocket echo server
• access raw websocket frames for protocol extensions

When to choose

• you want a simple, lightweight websocket implementation in Rust
• you need efficient single-threaded handling of many connections
• you need low-level access to WebSocket frames
• you want SSL or permessage-deflate support out of the box

When to avoid

• you need an actively developed library with recent maintenance
• you are building with async/await ecosystems like tokio (consider tokio-tungstenite)
• you need production guarantees for a new project given limited recent activity

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

websocket http-server networking web-development backend networking rust windows cross-platform mio event-driven rfc6455 ssl permessage-deflate single-threaded real-time linux macos

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