# Tokio
A runtime for writing reliable, asynchronous, and slim applications with
the Rust programming language. It is:
* **Fast**: Tokio's zero-cost abstractions give you bare-metal
performance.
* **Reliable**: Tokio leverages Rust's ownership, type system, and
concurrency model to reduce bugs and ensure thread safety.
* **Scalable**: Tokio has a minimal footprint, and handles backpressure
and cancellation naturally.
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[Website](https://tokio.rs) |
[Guides](https://tokio.rs/docs/) |
[API Docs](https://docs.rs/tokio/0.2/tokio) |
[Chat](https://discord.gg/6yGkFeN)
## Overview
Tokio is an event-driven, non-blocking I/O platform for writing
asynchronous applications with the Rust programming language. At a high
level, it provides a few major components:
* A multithreaded, work-stealing based task [scheduler].
* A reactor backed by the operating system's event queue (epoll, kqueue,
IOCP, etc...).
* Asynchronous [TCP and UDP][net] sockets.
These components provide the runtime components necessary for building
an asynchronous application.
[net]: https://docs.rs/tokio/0.2/tokio/net/index.html
[scheduler]: https://docs.rs/tokio/0.2/tokio/runtime/index.html
## Example
To get started, add the following to `Cargo.toml`.
```toml
tokio = { version = "0.2", features = ["full"] }
```
Tokio requires components to be explicitly enabled using feature flags. As a
shorthand, the `full` feature enables all components.
A basic TCP echo server with Tokio:
```rust,no_run
use tokio::net::TcpListener;
use tokio::prelude::*;
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let mut listener = TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:8080").await?;
loop {
let (mut socket, _) = listener.accept().await?;
tokio::spawn(async move {
let mut buf = [0; 1024];
// In a loop, read data from the socket and write the data back.
loop {
let n = match socket.read(&mut buf).await {
// socket closed
Ok(n) if n == 0 => return,
Ok(n) => n,
Err(e) => {
eprintln!("failed to read from socket; err = {:?}", e);
return;
}
};
// Write the data back
if let Err(e) = socket.write_all(&buf[0..n]).await {
eprintln!("failed to write to socket; err = {:?}", e);
return;
}
}
});
}
}
```
More examples can be found [here](../examples).
## Getting Help
First, see if the answer to your question can be found in the [Guides] or the
[API documentation]. If the answer is not there, there is an active community in
the [Tokio Discord server][chat]. We would be happy to try to answer your
question. Last, if that doesn't work, try opening an [issue] with the question.
[Guides]: https://tokio.rs/docs/
[API documentation]: https://docs.rs/tokio/0.2
[chat]: https://discord.gg/6yGkFeN
[issue]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/issues/new
## Contributing
:balloon: Thanks for your help improving the project! We are so happy to have
you! We have a [contributing guide][guide] to help you get involved in the Tokio
project.
[guide]: CONTRIBUTING.md
## Related Projects
In addition to the crates in this repository, the Tokio project also maintains
several other libraries, including:
* [`tracing`] (formerly `tokio-trace`): A framework for application-level
tracing and async-aware diagnostics.
* [`mio`]: A low-level, cross-platform abstraction over OS I/O APIs that powers
`tokio`.
* [`bytes`]: Utilities for working with bytes, including efficient byte buffers.
[`tracing`]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing
[`mio`]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/mio
[`bytes`]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/bytes
## Supported Rust Versions
Tokio is built against the latest stable, nightly, and beta Rust releases. The
minimum version supported is the stable release from three months before the
current stable release version. For example, if the latest stable Rust is 1.29,
the minimum version supported is 1.26. The current Tokio version is not
guaranteed to build on Rust versions earlier than the minimum supported version.
## License
This project is licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE).
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in Tokio by you, shall be licensed as MIT, without any additional
terms or conditions.