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import RenderCodeBlock from '@theme/CodeBlock'; import CodeBlock from "@site/src/components/code_block"; import vars from "@site/vars";
Installing Rust
If you don't have Rust yet, we recommend you use rustup
to manage your Rust installation. The official rust guide has a wonderful section on getting started.
Actix Web currently has a minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) of { vars.rustVersion }. Running rustup update
will ensure you have the latest and greatest Rust version available. As such, this guide assumes you are running Rust { vars.rustVersion } or later.
Hello, world!
Start by creating a new binary-based Cargo project and changing into the new directory:
cargo new hello-world
cd hello-world
Add actix-web
as a dependency of your project by adding the following to your Cargo.toml
file.
Request handlers use async functions that accept zero or more parameters. These parameters can be extracted from a request (see FromRequest
trait) and returns a type that can be converted into an HttpResponse
(see Responder
trait):
Replace the contents of src/main.rs
with the following:
Notice that some of these handlers have routing information attached directly using the built-in macros. These allow you to specify the method and path that the handler should respond to. You will see below how to register manual_hello
(i.e. routes that do not use a routing macro).
Next, create an App
instance and register the request handlers. Use App::service
for the handlers using routing macros and App::route
for manually routed handlers, declaring the path and method. Finally, the app is started inside an HttpServer
which will serve incoming requests using your App
as an "application factory".
Further append the following main
function to src/main.rs
:
That's it! Compile and run the program with cargo run
. The #[actix_web::main]
macro executes the async main function within the actix runtime. Now you can go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/
or any of the other routes you defined to see the results.