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Rocket
Rust2016–2023
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Rocket

A web framework for Rust.

38Distinct people
48Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
25.8KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A web framework for Rust.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

> Rust 1.45.0 adds the ability to invoke procedural macros in three new places! Rust 1.45 will be the Rocket Release. It unblocks Rocket running on stable as tracked here…

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year48 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-12-23 17:43:09 UTC to 2023-11-22 16:06:38 UTC.

051015202016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 4 submissions, 14 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18414
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
Rocket Rocket is an async web framework for Rust with a focus on usability, security, extensibility, and speed. #[macro_use] extern crate rocket; #[get("/<name>/<age>")] fn hello(name: &str, age: u8) -> String { format!("Hello, {} year old named {}!", age, name) } #[launch] fn rocket() -> _ { rocket::build().mount("/hello", routes![hello]) } Visiting localhost:8000/hello/John/58, for example, will trigger the hello route resulting in the string Hello, 58 year old named John! being sent to the browser. If an <age> string was passed in that can't be parsed as a u8, the route won't get called, resulting in a 404 error. Documentation Rocket is extensively documented: Overview: A brief look at what makes Rocket special. Quickstart: How to get started as quickly as possible. Getting Started: How to start your first Rocket project. Guide: A detailed guide and reference to Rocket. API Documentation: The "rustdocs". Documentation for the master branch is available at https://rocket.rs/master and https://api.rocket.rs/master. Documentation for major release version ${x} is available at https://[api.]rocket.rs/v${x}. For example, the v0.4 docs are available at https://rocket.rs/v0.4 and https://api.rocket.rs/v0.4. Finally, API docs for active git branches are available at https://api.rocket.rs/${branch}. For example, API docs for the master branch are available at https://api.rocket.rs/master. Branch rustdocs are built and deployed on every commit. Examples The examples directory contains complete crates that showcase Rocket's features and usage. Each example can be compiled and run with Cargo. For instance, the following sequence of commands builds and runs the hello example: cd examples/hello cargo run Getting Help If you find yourself needing help outside of the documentation, you may: Ask questions via GitHub discussions questions. Chat with us at #rocket:mozilla.org on Matrix (join via Element). Contributing Contributions are absolutely, positively welcomed and encouraged! If you're interested in contributing code, please first read CONTRIBUTING for complete guidelines. Additionally, you could: Submit a feature request or bug report as an issue. Ask for improved documentation as an issue. Comment on issues that require feedback. Answers questions in GitHub discussions questions. Share a project in GitHub discussions show & tell. License Rocket is licensed under either of the following, at your option: 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) Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Rocket by you shall be dual licensed under the MIT License and Apache License, Version 2.0, without any additional terms or conditions. The Rocket website docs are licensed under separate terms. Any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Rocket website docs by you shall be licensed under those terms.
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What Hacker News says

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In Ask HN: Anyone using Rust for server side application development?
The only popular crate that I can think of that still requires nigthly is Rocket[0], the 0.5 release does not but the lack of maintenance means that it has been three years since 0.4 and months since the last update. In that time Warp, Axum, Tide, Actix and many more frameworks that are all on stable has eaten its lunch. As for long compile times, I agree, it has gotten heaps better but is still far from Go (nor will it ever get that good), but for most my projects with incremental debug builds its in the ballpark of ~2 seconds, which is good enough for me and `cargo check` is close to instant. Release builds, yeah, they are slow. [0]: https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket
In Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18

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