http-rs/tide
Tide
Tide is an asynchronous web server framework and HTTP toolkit for the Rust programming language. It provides a system for building high-concurrency network applications and REST APIs using non-blocking I/O and asynchronous runtimes.
The framework is centered around a middleware-based request pipeline, allowing developers to intercept and process HTTP requests and responses through pluggable logic layers. It supports a hierarchical route tree to organize endpoints into nested groups that share common path prefixes and scoped middleware.
Capability areas include real-time communication via WebSockets and server-sent events, as well as content delivery through static file serving and dynamic template rendering. The framework also handles JSON payloads, GraphQL queries, multipart file uploads, and the management of global application state and user sessions.
Security is supported through TLS encryption for network traffic and identity verification for protected resources.
Features
- Asynchronous Web Servers - Acts as an asynchronous web server that handles HTTP requests using an event-driven model for high concurrency.
- Web Server Frameworks - Acts as a foundational framework for building high-concurrency asynchronous web servers in Rust.
- Middleware-Based Request Pipelines - Implements a modular chain of pluggable components to process network requests and responses.
- JSON Serialization - Provides utilities for serializing data structures into JSON responses and parsing incoming JSON request bodies.
- Async Event Loop Runtimes - Provides an asynchronous event-driven execution model to handle high-concurrency HTTP connections without blocking the main thread.
- Custom Middleware Implementations - Allows the implementation of custom middleware to intercept request-response cycles for shared logic like authentication.
- Request Middleware - Implements request middleware to process incoming requests and outgoing responses for compression and security.
- HTTP Middleware Pipelines - Implements a pipeline of interceptors that process HTTP requests and responses for shared logic like logging and parsing.
- REST API Frameworks - Offers a framework for defining hierarchical routes and handling serialized data for REST services.
- API Implementations - Provides the necessary tooling to build structured REST endpoints that process JSON payloads.
- Rust Web Frameworks - Enables the development of high-performance web servers and APIs using Rust's asynchronous runtime.
- Global Application State - Maintains a typed global application state shared across request handlers within a server instance.
- Session Data Stores - Manages user sessions by storing and retrieving session data across multiple HTTP requests.
- Real-time Communication Servers - Provides a server implementation capable of handling live messaging and interactive data streams via WebSockets.
- Server-Sent Events - Implements server-sent events for pushing real-time updates to clients over long-lived HTTP connections.
- Identity Authentication - Provides mechanisms for identity verification and access control to secure protected resources.
- Thread-Safe State Containers - Provides a thread-safe container for global application state that is injected into request handlers.
- Trait-Based Request Handlers - Uses Rust traits to define polymorphic interfaces for processing requests and generating HTTP responses.
- Dynamic Template Rendering - Ships capabilities for both serving static local files and rendering dynamic HTML templates.
- Real-Time Communication - Supports real-time bidirectional data exchange through integrated WebSocket and long-lived connection capabilities.
- Hierarchical Routing - Organizes API endpoints in a nested tree structure to share common path prefixes and scoped middleware.
- WebSocket Communication - Integrates WebSocket communication to establish full-duplex, real-time data exchange channels between clients and the server.
