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Actix Web

Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust

Features

Supports HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2
Streaming and pipelining
Powerful request routing with optional macros
Full Tokio compatibility
Keep-alive and slow requests handling
Client/server WebSockets support
Transparent content compression/decompression (br, gzip, deflate, zstd)
Multipart streams
Static assets
SSL support using OpenSSL or Rustls
Middlewares (Logger, Session, CORS, etc)
Integrates with the awc HTTP client
Runs on stable Rust 1.59+

Documentation

Example

Dependencies:

[dependencies]
actix-web = "4"

Code:

use actix_web::{get, web, App, HttpServer, Responder};

#[get("/hello/{name}")]
async fn greet(name: web::Path<String>) -> impl Responder {
    format!("Hello {name}!")
}

#[actix_web::main] // or #[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
    HttpServer::new(|| {
        App::new().service(greet)
    })
    .bind(("127.0.0.1", 8080))?
    .run()
    .await
}

More Examples

You may consider checking out this directory for more examples.

Benchmarks

One of the fastest web frameworks available according to the TechEmpower Framework Benchmark.

License

This project is licensed under either of the following licenses, at your option:

Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or [http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0])
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or [http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT])

Code of Conduct

Contribution to the actix-web repo is organized under the terms of the Contributor Covenant. The Actix team promises to intervene to uphold that code of conduct.

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