Micro Http

A lightweight, efficient, and modular HTTP server implementation built on top of tokio.

Features

• Full HTTP/1.1 protocol support, HTTP 2 currently not supported
• Asynchronous I/O using tokio
• Streaming request and response bodies
• Chunked transfer encoding
• Keep-alive connections
• Expect-continue mechanism
• Efficient memory usage through zero-copy parsing
• Structured logging with tracing

Crates

This workspace contains the following crates:

• micro-http: Core HTTP protocol implementation

  • Zero-copy parsing
  • Streaming bodies
  • Full protocol compliance
  • Example server

• micro-web: High-level web framework

  • Routing
  • Middleware support
  • Request/Response abstractions
  • Getting started guide

Quick Start

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
micro-web = "0.1"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

See the getting started example for a complete working example.

Performance

For performance benchmarks and comparisons, see (we are not in this benchmark yes, but we will):

• Web Frameworks Benchmark

Development

• Deploy new version guide

MSRV

The Minimum Supported Rust Version is 1.74

License

Licensed under either of:

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

at your option.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.