Tide

Serve the web

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Tide is a minimal and pragmatic Rust web application framework built for rapid development. It comes with a robust set of features that make building async web applications and APIs easier and more fun.

Getting started

In order to build a web app in Rust you need an HTTP server, and an async runtime. After running cargo init add the following lines to your Cargo.toml file:

# Example, use the version numbers you need
tide = "0.16.0"
async-std = { version = "1.8.0", features = ["attributes"] }
serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }

Examples

Create an HTTP server that receives a JSON body, validates it, and responds with a confirmation message.

use tide::Request;
use tide::prelude::*;

#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
struct Animal {
    name: String,
    legs: u8,
}

#[async_std::main]
async fn main() -> tide::Result<()> {
    let mut app = tide::new();
    app.at("/orders/shoes").post(order_shoes);
    app.listen("127.0.0.1:8080").await?;
    Ok(())
}

async fn order_shoes(mut req: Request<()>) -> tide::Result {
    let Animal { name, legs } = req.body_json().await?;
    Ok(format!("Hello, {}! I've put in an order for {} shoes", name, legs).into())
}

$ curl localhost:8080/orders/shoes -d '{ "name": "Chashu", "legs": 4 }'
Hello, Chashu! I've put in an order for 4 shoes

$ curl localhost:8080/orders/shoes -d '{ "name": "Mary Millipede", "legs": 750 }'
number too large to fit in target type

See more examples in the examples directory.

Tide's design:

• Rising Tide: building a modular web framework in the open
• Routing and extraction in Tide: a first sketch
• Middleware in Tide
• Tide's evolving middleware approach
• Tide, the present and future of
• Tide channels

Community Resources

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Listeners

• tide-rustls tls for tide based on async-tls/rustls

Template engines

• tide-tera
• tide-handlebars
• askama (includes support for tide)

Routers

• tide-fluent-routes

Auth

• tide-http-auth

Testing

• tide-testing

Middleware

• tide-compress
• tide-sqlx - SQLx pooled connections & transactions
• tide-trace
• tide-tracing
• opentelemetry-tide
• driftwood http logging middleware
• tide-compressed-sse
• tide-websockets

Session Stores

• async-redis-session
• async-sqlx-session (sqlite and postgres currently)
• async-mongodb-session

Example applications

• dot dot vote
• tide-example (sqlx + askama)
• playground-tide-mongodb
• tide-morth-example

Contributing

Want to join us? Check out our The "Contributing" section of the guide and take a look at some of these issues:

• Issues labeled "good first issue"
• Issues labeled "help wanted"

Conduct

The Tide project adheres to the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct. This describes the minimum behavior expected from all contributors.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.