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
Keep-alive and slow requests handling
Client/server WebSockets support
Transparent content compression/decompression (br, gzip, deflate)
Powerful request routing
Multipart streams
Static assets
SSL support using OpenSSL or Rustls
Middlewares (Logger, Session, CORS, etc)
Includes an async HTTP client
Supports Actix actor framework
Runs on stable Rust 1.42+

Documentation

Example

WARNING: This example is for the master branch which is currently in beta stages for v3. For Actix web v2 see the getting started guide.

Dependencies:

[dependencies]
actix-web = "3"

Code:

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

#[get("/{id}/{name}/index.html")]
async fn index(web::Path((id, name)): web::Path<(u32, String)>) -> impl Responder {
    format!("Hello {}! id:{}", name, id)
}

#[actix_web::main]
async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
    HttpServer::new(|| App::new().service(index))
        .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

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)

at your option.

Code of Conduct

Contribution to the actix-web crate is organized under the terms of the Contributor Covenant, the maintainers of Actix web, promises to intervene to uphold that code of conduct.

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