Totodore/socketioxide

A socket.io server implementation in Rust that integrates with the Tower ecosystem and the Tokio stack.

Rust

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Socketioxide 🚀🦀

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A socket.io server implementation in Rust that integrates with the Tower ecosystem and the Tokio stack. It integrates with any server framework based on tower like Axum, Warp, Salvo, Viz or Hyper. Add any other tower based middleware on top of socketioxide such as CORS, authorization, compression, etc with tower-http.

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Features

Examples

Chat app 💬 (see full example here)
io.ns("/", |s: SocketRef| {
    s.on("new message", |s: SocketRef, Data::<String>(msg)| {
        let username = s.extensions.get::<Username>().unwrap().clone();
        let msg = Res::Message {
            username,
            message: msg,
        };
        s.broadcast().emit("new message", msg).ok();
    });

    s.on(
        "add user",
        |s: SocketRef, Data::<String>(username), user_cnt: State<UserCnt>| {
            if s.extensions.get::<Username>().is_some() {
                return;
            }
            let num_users = user_cnt.add_user();
            s.extensions.insert(Username(username.clone()));
            s.emit("login", Res::Login { num_users }).ok();

            let res = Res::UserEvent {
                num_users,
                username: Username(username),
            };
            s.broadcast().emit("user joined", res).ok();
        },
    );

    s.on("typing", |s: SocketRef| {
        let username = s.extensions.get::<Username>().unwrap().clone();
        s.broadcast()
            .emit("typing", Res::Username { username })
            .ok();
    });

    s.on("stop typing", |s: SocketRef| {
        let username = s.extensions.get::<Username>().unwrap().clone();
        s.broadcast()
            .emit("stop typing", Res::Username { username })
            .ok();
    });

    s.on_disconnect(|s: SocketRef, user_cnt: State<UserCnt>| {
        if let Some(username) = s.extensions.get::<Username>() {
            let num_users = user_cnt.remove_user();
            let res = Res::UserEvent {
                num_users,
                username: username.clone(),
            };
            s.broadcast().emit("user left", res).ok();
        }
    });
});

Echo implementation with Axum 🏓
use axum::routing::get;
use serde_json::Value;
use socketioxide::{
    extract::{AckSender, Bin, Data, SocketRef},
    SocketIo,
};
use tracing::info;
use tracing_subscriber::FmtSubscriber;

fn on_connect(socket: SocketRef, Data(data): Data<Value>) {
    info!("Socket.IO connected: {:?} {:?}", socket.ns(), socket.id);
    socket.emit("auth", data).ok();

    socket.on(
        "message",
        |socket: SocketRef, Data::<Value>(data), Bin(bin)| {
            info!("Received event: {:?} {:?}", data, bin);
            socket.bin(bin).emit("message-back", data).ok();
        },
    );

    socket.on(
        "message-with-ack",
        |Data::<Value>(data), ack: AckSender, Bin(bin)| {
            info!("Received event: {:?} {:?}", data, bin);
            ack.bin(bin).send(data).ok();
        },
    );
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(FmtSubscriber::default())?;

    let (layer, io) = SocketIo::new_layer();

    io.ns("/", on_connect);
    io.ns("/custom", on_connect);

    let app = axum::Router::new()
        .route("/", get(|| async { "Hello, World!" }))
        .layer(layer);

    info!("Starting server");

    let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind("0.0.0.0:3000").await.unwrap();
    axum::serve(listener, app).await.unwrap();

    Ok(())
}
Other examples are available in the example folder

Contributions and Feedback / Questions

Any contribution is welcome, feel free to open an issue or a PR. If you want to contribute but don't know where to start, you can check the issues.

If you have any question or feedback, please open a thread on the discussions page.

License 🔐

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

axum
hyper
rust
socket-io
tokio
tower

Totodore/socketioxide

A socket.io server implementation in Rust that integrates with the Tower ecosystem and the Tokio stack.

Rust

1,630

1,494 commits

updated Oct 11, 2026

See the code

README

Socketioxide 🚀🦀

Shows Anuraghazra's GitHub Stats.

A socket.io server implementation in Rust that integrates with the Tower ecosystem and the Tokio stack. It integrates with any server framework based on tower like Axum, Warp, Salvo, Viz or Hyper. Add any other tower based middleware on top of socketioxide such as CORS, authorization, compression, etc with tower-http.

Crates.io Documentation CI

Features

Examples

Chat app 💬 (see full example here)
io.ns("/", |s: SocketRef| {
    s.on("new message", |s: SocketRef, Data::<String>(msg)| {
        let username = s.extensions.get::<Username>().unwrap().clone();
        let msg = Res::Message {
            username,
            message: msg,
        };
        s.broadcast().emit("new message", msg).ok();
    });

    s.on(
        "add user",
        |s: SocketRef, Data::<String>(username), user_cnt: State<UserCnt>| {
            if s.extensions.get::<Username>().is_some() {
                return;
            }
            let num_users = user_cnt.add_user();
            s.extensions.insert(Username(username.clone()));
            s.emit("login", Res::Login { num_users }).ok();

            let res = Res::UserEvent {
                num_users,
                username: Username(username),
            };
            s.broadcast().emit("user joined", res).ok();
        },
    );

    s.on("typing", |s: SocketRef| {
        let username = s.extensions.get::<Username>().unwrap().clone();
        s.broadcast()
            .emit("typing", Res::Username { username })
            .ok();
    });

    s.on("stop typing", |s: SocketRef| {
        let username = s.extensions.get::<Username>().unwrap().clone();
        s.broadcast()
            .emit("stop typing", Res::Username { username })
            .ok();
    });

    s.on_disconnect(|s: SocketRef, user_cnt: State<UserCnt>| {
        if let Some(username) = s.extensions.get::<Username>() {
            let num_users = user_cnt.remove_user();
            let res = Res::UserEvent {
                num_users,
                username: username.clone(),
            };
            s.broadcast().emit("user left", res).ok();
        }
    });
});

Echo implementation with Axum 🏓
use axum::routing::get;
use serde_json::Value;
use socketioxide::{
    extract::{AckSender, Bin, Data, SocketRef},
    SocketIo,
};
use tracing::info;
use tracing_subscriber::FmtSubscriber;

fn on_connect(socket: SocketRef, Data(data): Data<Value>) {
    info!("Socket.IO connected: {:?} {:?}", socket.ns(), socket.id);
    socket.emit("auth", data).ok();

    socket.on(
        "message",
        |socket: SocketRef, Data::<Value>(data), Bin(bin)| {
            info!("Received event: {:?} {:?}", data, bin);
            socket.bin(bin).emit("message-back", data).ok();
        },
    );

    socket.on(
        "message-with-ack",
        |Data::<Value>(data), ack: AckSender, Bin(bin)| {
            info!("Received event: {:?} {:?}", data, bin);
            ack.bin(bin).send(data).ok();
        },
    );
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(FmtSubscriber::default())?;

    let (layer, io) = SocketIo::new_layer();

    io.ns("/", on_connect);
    io.ns("/custom", on_connect);

    let app = axum::Router::new()
        .route("/", get(|| async { "Hello, World!" }))
        .layer(layer);

    info!("Starting server");

    let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind("0.0.0.0:3000").await.unwrap();
    axum::serve(listener, app).await.unwrap();

    Ok(())
}
Other examples are available in the example folder

Contributions and Feedback / Questions

Any contribution is welcome, feel free to open an issue or a PR. If you want to contribute but don't know where to start, you can check the issues.

If you have any question or feedback, please open a thread on the discussions page.

License 🔐

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

axum
hyper
rust
socket-io
tokio
tower

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