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Iron

High-level Rust web framework built on hyper, for extensible web applications.

Iron is a high-level web framework built in and for Rust, on top of the hyper HTTP library. A project adds it as a Cargo dependency and writes its handlers and middleware in Rust. The README describes it as scaling horizontally behind a load balancer, so an Iron app is a running Rust process.

The API documentation is generated for each crate release. The README names Jonathan Reem as the core maintainer and author, and the LICENSE file gives the copyright to the Iron Core Team.

Worth knowing

The README says no plugins or middleware are bundled with Iron. Routing, mounting, static file serving and logging are separate repositories.

Identity

Status
Stub
Maintainer
Jonathan Reem2
First release
20144

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on2
Install with
cargo dependency2

Releases

Current major version
Pre-1.04
Last release
2019-08-144

Adoption

GitHub stars
6,1061
Contributors
1305

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-26: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/iron/iron
  2. 2026-10-26: links, Maintainer, Runtime, Categories, Install with, Runs as
    raw.githubusercontent.com/iron/iron/master/README.md
  3. 2026-10-26: License
    raw.githubusercontent.com/iron/iron/master/LICENSE
  4. 2026-10-26: First release, Current major version, Last release
    crates.io/api/v1/crates/iron
  5. 2026-10-26: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/iron/iron/contributors?per_page=1

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