Actix web

Actix web is a small, fast, down-to-earth, open source rust web framework.

use actix_web::*;

fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> String {
    format!("Hello {}!", &req.match_info()["name"])
}

fn main() {
    HttpServer::new(
        || Application::new()
            .resource("/{name}", |r| r.f(index)))
        .serve::<_, ()>("127.0.0.1:8080");
}

Documentation

User Guide
API Documentation (Development)
API Documentation (Releases)
Cargo package: actix-web
Minimum supported Rust version: 1.20 or later

Features

Supported HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2.0 protocols
Streaming and pipelining
Keep-alive and slow requests handling
WebSockets
Transparent content compression/decompression (br, gzip, deflate)
Configurable request routing
Multipart streams
Middlewares (Logger, Session, DefaultHeaders)
Built on top of Actix.

HTTP/2

Actix web automatically upgrades connection to http/2 if possible.

Negotiation

HTTP/2 protocol over tls without prior knowlage requires tls alpn. At the moment only rust-openssl supports alpn.

[dependencies]
actix-web = { git = "https://github.com/actix/actix-web", features=["alpn"] }

Upgrade to http/2 schema described in rfc section 3.2 is not supported. Starting http/2 with prior knowledge is supported for both clear text connection and tls connection. rfc section 3.4

tls example

Benchmarks

This is totally unscientific and probably pretty useless. In real world business logic would dominate on performance side. But in any case. i took several web frameworks for rust and used theirs hello world example. All projects are compiled with --release parameter. I didnt test single thread performance for iron and rocket. As a testing tool i used wrk and following commands

wrk -t20 -c100 -d10s http://127.0.0.1:8080/

wrk -t20 -c100 -d10s http://127.0.0.1:8080/ -s ./pipeline.lua --latency -- / 128

I ran all tests on localhost on MacBook Pro late 2017. It has 4 cpu and 8 logical cpus. Each result is best of five runs. All measurements are req/sec.

Name	1 thread	1 pipeline	3 thread	3 pipeline	8 thread	8 pipeline
Actix	81400	710200	121000	1684000	106300	2206000
Gotham	61000	178000
Iron					94500	78000
Rocket					95500	failed
Shio	71800	317800
tokio-minihttp	106900	1047000

Some notes on results. Iron and Rocket got tested with 8 threads, which showed best results. Gothan and tokio-minihttp seem does not support multithreading, or at least i couldn't figured out. I manually enabled pipelining for Shio and Gotham*. While shio seems support multithreading, but it showed absolutly same results for any how number of threads (maybe macos?) Rocket completely failed in pipelined tests.

Examples

License

Actix web is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.

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