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What is Rocket?

Rocket is a web framework for Rust that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety. All with minimal code.
Rocket is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Rocket is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Rocket's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Rocket?

Companies
9 companies reportedly use Rocket in their tech stacks, including Teachable, MEGA, and Growstuff.

Developers
77 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Rocket.

Rocket Integrations

Pros of Rocket
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Easy to use
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Uses all the rust features extensively
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Django analog in rust
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Inbuilt templating feature
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Provides nice abstractions

Rocket's Features

  • From request to response Rocket ensures that your types mean something
  • Boilerplate free
  • Easy to use
  • Extensible

Rocket Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Rocket?
Actix
It is a simple, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust. Actors are objects which encapsulate state and behavior, they communicate exclusively by exchanging messages.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
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Rocket's Followers
174 developers follow Rocket to keep up with related blogs and decisions.