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