tokio-tungstenite
Asynchronous WebSockets for Tokio stack.
Usage
Add this in your Cargo.toml
:
[dependencies]
tokio-tungstenite = "*"
Take a look at the examples/
directory for client and server examples. You may also want to get familiar with
Tokio if you don't have any experience with it.
What is tokio-tungstenite?
This crate is based on tungstenite-rs
Rust WebSocket library and provides Tokio
bindings and wrappers for it, so you
can use it with non-blocking/asynchronous TcpStream
s from and couple it together with other crates from Tokio
stack.
Features
As with tungstenite-rs
TLS is supported on all platforms using native-tls
or rustls
through feature flags: native-tls
, rustls-tls-native-roots
or rustls-tls-webpki-roots
feature flags. Neither is enabled by default. See the Cargo.toml
for more information. If you require support for secure WebSockets (wss://
) enable one of them.
Is it performant?
In essence, tokio-tungstenite
is a wrapper for tungstenite
, so the performance is capped by the performance of tungstenite
. tungstenite
has a decent performance (it has been used in production for real-time communication software, video conferencing, etc), but it's definitely
not the fastest WebSocket library in the world at the moment of writing this note.
If performance is of a paramount importance for you (especially if you send large messages), then you might want to check other libraries
that have been designed to be performant or you could file a PR against tungstenite
to improve the performance!
We are aware of changes that both tungstenite
and tokio-tungstenite
need in order to fill the gap of ~30% performance difference between tungstenite
and more performant libraries like fastwebsockets
, but we have not worked on that yet as it was not required for the use case that original authors designed
the library for. In the course of past years we have merged several performance improvements submitted by the awesome community of Rust users who helped to improve
the library! For a quick summary of the pending performance problems/improvements, see the comment.