ZIO-WEB

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ZIO Web supports the features you need to be productive:

Endpoints. Define reliable and scalable endpoints concisely, type-safely, and composably.
Protocol-Agnostic. Deploy endpoints to any supported protocol, including HTTP and gRPC.
Stream-friendly. Handle requests and responses that are too big to fit in memory at once.
- WebSockets
Introspection-friendly
- Documentation. Generate documentation that is automatically in-sync with the endpoints.
- Client. Interact with an endpoint type-safely from Scala without writing any code.
Middleware-friendly. Middleware is type-safe and compositional and can include built-in middleware or third-party middleware, or combinations.
- Metrics/Monitoring. Built-in integration with ZIO ZMX.
- Rate-limiting. Customizable rate-limiting with DDOS protection.
- Logging. Request/response logging in Common Log format.
- Via third-party libraries, pluggable authentication, authorization, persistence, caching, session management.
High-performance. Fastest functional Scala library.

Compared to the competition, ZIO Web features:

ZIO native
Beginner-friendly
- Minimal / no type classes, implicits, or higher-kinded types
- Highly discoverable API
- Good type inference
- Minimal jargon
Expert-friendly
- Type-safe
- No magic, edge cases, or surprises
GraalVM-ready
Fast performance
Composable

Protocols

ZIO Web supports the following protocols out-of-the-box:

Add in your build.sbt:

libraryDependencies += "dev.zio" %% "zio-http-core" % "<version>"