Tungstenite

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_releases

Adoption not part of the score

2384 stars · 290 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

tokio-tungstenite is a Rust library providing asynchronous WebSocket client and server support built on top of the lightweight tungstenite-rs implementation, with Tokio bindings for non-blocking streams. It supports TLS via native-tls or rustls feature flags for secure wss:// connections.

Use cases

• add websocket support to a tokio server
• connect to a websocket api from rust asynchronously
• build a real-time chat backend in rust
• stream messages over wss with rustls
• implement a lightweight websocket client without heavy frameworks

When to choose

• you are already using the Tokio async runtime
• you want a lightweight, stream-based WebSocket implementation in Rust
• you need TLS support via native-tls or rustls feature flags
• you need a mature, widely used WebSocket crate with production track record

When to avoid

• you need maximum WebSocket throughput and prefer fastwebsockets
• you use an async runtime other than Tokio
• you want a full-featured web framework with WebSockets built in

Facets

library · maturity stable

websocket http-server http-client networking web-development backend networking rust cross-platform websocket tokio async rust tls wss real-time

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