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title: What is Actix
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menu: docs_intro
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weight: 100
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# Actix is Multiple Things
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Actix is a few things. The base of it is a powerful actor system for Rust on
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top of which the `actix-web` system was originally built. This is what you are most
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likely going to work with. What `actix-web` gives you is a fun and very fast web
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development framework.
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We call `actix-web` a small and pragmatic framework. For all intents and purposes
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it's a microframework with a few twists. If you are already a Rust programmer
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you will probably find yourself at home quickly, but even if you are coming from
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another programming language you should find `actix-web` easy to pick up.
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An application developed with `actix-web` will expose an HTTP server contained
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within a native executable. You can either put this behind another HTTP server like
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nginx or serve it up as-is. Even in the complete absence of another HTTP
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server `actix-web` is powerful enough to provide HTTP 1 and HTTP 2 support as
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well as SSL/TLS. This makes it useful for building small services ready for
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distribution.
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Most importantly: `actix-web` runs on Rust {{< rust-version "actix-web" >}} or later
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and it works with stable releases.
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