From 2011f100a51c175e5accd97deb822a1343d2b4c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cameron Dershem Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:53:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] makes intro accurate about acitx-web. --- content/docs/_index.md | 6 +++--- content/docs/installation.md | 2 +- content/docs/whatis.md | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/docs/_index.md b/content/docs/_index.md index 87d1e87..a8622d4 100644 --- a/content/docs/_index.md +++ b/content/docs/_index.md @@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ Actix is your door to developing web services with Rust and this documentation is going to guide you. This documentation currently covers mostly the `actix-web` part which is the -high level web framework build on top of the `actix` actor framework and the +high level web framework previously built on top of the `actix` actor framework and the [Tokio](https://tokio.rs/) async IO system. This is the part that is from an API stability point of view the most stable. -If you haven't used actix yet it's best to start with the [getting started +If you haven't used `actix-web` yet it's best to start with the [getting started guide](getting-started/). If you already know your ways around and you need specific information you might want to read the [actix-web API -docs](https://actix.rs/api/actix-web/stable/actix_web/) (or the lower level [actix API +docs](https://docs.rs/actix-web) (or the lower level [actix API docs](https://docs.rs/actix)). diff --git a/content/docs/installation.md b/content/docs/installation.md index 5ad24b6..964663c 100644 --- a/content/docs/installation.md +++ b/content/docs/installation.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ particular this guide will assume that you actually run Rust Thanks to Rust's `cargo` package manager you won't need to explicitly install `actix-web`. Just depend on it and you're ready to go. For the unlikely -case that you want to use the development version of actix-web you can +case that you want to use the development version of `actix-web` you can depend on the git repository directly. Release version: diff --git a/content/docs/whatis.md b/content/docs/whatis.md index 6a097d3..67765d6 100644 --- a/content/docs/whatis.md +++ b/content/docs/whatis.md @@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ weight: 100 # Actix is Multiple Things Actix is a few things. The base of it is a powerful actor system for Rust on -top of which the `actix-web` system is built. This is what you are most likely -going to work with. What `actix-web` gives you is a fun and very fast web +top of which the `actix-web` system was originally built. This is what you are most +likely going to work with. What `actix-web` gives you is a fun and very fast web development framework. We call `actix-web` a small and pragmatic framework. For all intents and purposes it's a microframework with a few twists. If you are already a Rust programmer you will probably find yourself at home quickly, but even if you are coming from -another programming language you should find actix-web easy to pick up. +another programming language you should find `actix-web` easy to pick up. An application developed with `actix-web` will expose an HTTP server contained within a native executable. You can either put this behind another HTTP server like