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title: Documentation
description: Guiding you through building apps with actix
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# Welcome to Actix

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 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-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://docs.rs/actix-web) (or the lower level [actix API
docs](https://docs.rs/actix)).