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# Getting Started
Lets create and run our first actix web application. Well create a new Cargo project
that depends on actix web and then run the application.
In previous section we already installed required rust version. Now let's create new cargo projects.
## Hello, world!
Lets write our first actix web application! Start by creating a new binary-based
Cargo project and changing into the new directory:
```bash
cargo new hello-world --bin
cd hello-world
```
Now, add actix and actix web as dependencies of your project by ensuring your Cargo.toml
contains the following:
```toml
[dependencies]
actix = "0.3"
actix-web = { git = "https://github.com/actix/actix-web" }
```
In order to implement a web server, first we need to create a request handler.
A request handler is a function that accepts a `HttpRequest` instance as its only parameter
and returns a `HttpResponse` instance or actor that uses `HttpContext` as an actor's context::
```rust,ignore
extern crate actix_web;
use actix_web::prelude::*;
fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> Result<HttpResponse> {
Ok(httpcodes::HTTPOk.with_body("Hello world!"))
}
```
Next, create an `Application` instance and register the
request handler with the application's `resource` on a particular *HTTP method* and *path*::
```rust,ignore
let app = Application::default("/")
.resource("/", |r| r.handler(Method::GET, index)
.finish()
```
After that, application instance can be used with `HttpServer` to listen for incoming
connections:
```rust,ignore
HttpServer::new(app).serve::<_, ()>("127.0.0.1:8088");
```
That's it. Now, compile and run the program with cargo run.
Head over to ``http://localhost:8088/`` to see the results.
Here is full source of main.rs file:
```rust
extern crate actix;
extern crate actix_web;
use actix_web::prelude::*;
fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> Result<HttpResponse> {
Ok(httpcodes::HTTPOk.with_body("Hello world!"))
}
fn main() {
let sys = actix::System::new("example");
HttpServer::new(
Application::default("/")
.resource("/", |r| r.handler(Method::GET, index)))
.serve::<_, ()>("127.0.0.1:8088").unwrap();
println!("Started http server: 127.0.0.1:8088");
// do not copy this line
actix::Arbiter::system().send(actix::msgs::SystemExit(0));
let _ = sys.run();
}
```