Roadrunner.Plug

Run Plug and Phoenix apps on Roadrunner, the pure-Erlang HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and WebSocket server.

Requirements

Requires OTP 27+ and Elixir 1.18+.

🚧 Status

Roadrunner.Plug is in 0.x. The core is functional and covered by tests, but the API may change between minor versions. Pin an exact version in your deps if you need stability across upgrades.

Installation

Add roadrunner_plug to your deps in mix.exs (latest version on Hex):

def deps do
  [
    {:roadrunner_plug, ">= 0.0.0"}
  ]
end

Plug

Add the listener to your supervision tree:

children = [
  {Roadrunner.Plug, plug: MyApp.Router, port: 4000}
]

See Roadrunner.Plug for the options: :port, :ip, :scheme and TLS, and :roadrunner for any Roadrunner listener option.

Phoenix

Set the endpoint's adapter:

# config/config.exs
config :my_app, MyAppWeb.Endpoint,
  adapter: Roadrunner.PhoenixAdapter,
  url: [host: "localhost"]

The :http and :https settings work as in a generated Phoenix app.

What works

• Responses: complete, chunked, files and 103 Early Hints
• Request bodies read on demand, so Plug.Parsers sets the limits
• get_peer_data/1 (with the client's TLS certificate), get_sock_data/1, get_ssl_data/1 and get_http_protocol/1
• WebSocket upgrades through Plug.Conn.upgrade_adapter/3 with a WebSock handler, over HTTP/1.1
• Phoenix endpoints, including the code reloader
• Phoenix Channels and LiveView over WebSocket, with websock_adapter 0.7 or later (mix deps.update websock_adapter in an existing app)

Sponsors

Roadrunner.Plug is open source and maintained on personal time. If you or your company find it useful, consider sponsoring.

I also accept coffees ☕

License

Copyright (c) 2026 William Fank Thomé

Roadrunner.Plug is open-source under the Apache 2.0 License on GitHub.

See LICENSE.md for more information.