# tokio-tungstenite
Asynchronous WebSockets for Tokio stack.
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[Documentation](https://docs.rs/tokio-tungstenite)
## Usage
Add this in your `Cargo.toml`:
```toml
[dependencies]
tokio-tungstenite = "*"
```
Take a look at the `examples/` directory for client and server examples. You may also want to get familiar with
[Tokio](https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio) if you don't have any experience with it.
## What is tokio-tungstenite?
This crate is based on [`tungstenite-rs`](https://github.com/snapview/tungstenite-rs) Rust WebSocket library and provides `Tokio` bindings and wrappers for it, so you
can use it with non-blocking/asynchronous `TcpStream`s from and couple it together with other crates from `Tokio` stack.
## Features
As with [`tungstenite-rs`](https://github.com/snapview/tungstenite-rs) TLS is supported on all platforms using [`native-tls`](https://github.com/sfackler/rust-native-tls) or [`rustls`](https://github.com/ctz/rustls) through feature flags: `native-tls`, `rustls-tls-native-roots` or `rustls-tls-webpki-roots` feature flags. Neither is enabled by default. See the `Cargo.toml` for more information. If you require support for secure WebSockets (`wss://`) enable one of them.
## Is it performant?
In essence, `tokio-tungstenite` is a wrapper for `tungstenite`, so the performance is capped by the performance of `tungstenite`. `tungstenite`
has a decent performance (it has been used in production for real-time communication software, video conferencing, etc), but it's definitely
not the fastest WebSocket library in the world at the moment of writing this note.
If performance is of a paramount importance for you (especially if you send **large messages**), then you might want to check other libraries
that have been designed to be performant or you could file a PR against `tungstenite` to improve the performance!
We are aware of changes that both `tungstenite` and `tokio-tungstenite` need in order to fill the gap of ~30% performance difference between `tungstenite`
and more performant libraries like `fastwebsockets`, but we have not worked on that yet as it was not required for the use case that original authors designed
the library for. In the course of past years we have merged several performance improvements submitted by the awesome community of Rust users who helped to improve
the library! For a quick summary of the pending performance problems/improvements, see [the comment](https://github.com/snapview/tungstenite-rs/issues/352#issuecomment-1537488614).