Network Programming with Rust

Introducing Hyper

Hyper is arguably the most stable and well-known of Rust-based HTTP frameworks. It has two distinct components, one for writing HTTP servers and one for writing clients. Recently, the server component was moved to a new async programming model based on tokio and futures. As a result, it is well-suited for high-traffic workloads. However, like a lot of other libraries in the ecosystem, Hyper has not hit Version 1.0 yet, so one should expect breaking API changes.

We will start with writing a small HTTP server in Hyper. Like always, we will need to set up our project using Cargo.

$ cargo new --bin hyper-server

Let us now add dependencies that will include hyper and futures. The Cargo.toml file will look as follows:

[package] ...