actix-extras/guide/src/qs_1.md

Quick start

Before you can start writing a actix web application, you’ll need a version of Rust installed. We recommend you use rustup to install or configure such a version.

Install Rust

Before we begin, we need to install Rust using the rustup installer:

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

If you already have rustup installed, run this command to ensure you have the latest version of Rust:

rustup update

Actix web framework requires rust version 1.20 and up.

Running Examples

The fastest way to start experimenting with actix web is to clone the actix web repository and run the included examples in the examples/ directory. The following set of commands runs the basics example:

git clone https://github.com/actix/actix-web
cd actix-web/examples/basics
cargo run

Check examples/ directory for more examples.