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Rocket vs Tower Web: What are the differences?

Rocket: Web Framework for Rust. 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; Tower Web: A fast, boilerplate free, web framework for Rust. Tower Web aims to decouple all HTTP concepts from the application logic. You define a "plain old Rust method" (PORM?). This method takes only the data it needs to complete and returns a struct representing the response. Tower Web does the rest.

Rocket and Tower Web belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

Rocket and Tower Web are both open source tools. It seems that Rocket with 7.42K GitHub stars and 500 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Tower Web with 621 GitHub stars and 45 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Rocket
Pros of Tower Web
  • 4
    Easy to use
  • 4
    Uses all the rust features extensively
  • 1
    Django analog in rust
  • 1
    Inbuilt templating feature
  • 1
    Provides nice abstractions
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    Cons of Rocket
    Cons of Tower Web
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      Only runs in nightly
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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.

      What is Tower Web?

      Tower Web aims to decouple all HTTP concepts from the application logic. You define a "plain old Rust method" (PORM?). This method takes only the data it needs to complete and returns a struct representing the response. Tower Web does the rest.

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