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Installing Rust
Since actix-web is a Rust framework you will need Rust to get started with it.
If you don't have it yet we recommend you use rustup to manage your Rust
installation. The official rust
guide
has a wonderful section on getting started.
We currently require at least Rust {{< rust-version "actix-web" >}} so make sure you
run rustup update to have the latest and greatest Rust version available. In
particular this guide will assume that you actually run Rust
{{< rust-version "actix-web" >}} or later.
Installing actix-web
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
depend on the git repository directly.
Release version:
[dependencies]
actix-web = "{{< actix-version "actix-web" >}}"
Development version:
[dependencies]
actix-web = { git = "https://github.com/actix/actix-web" }
Diving In
There are two paths you can take here. You can follow the guide along or if
you are very impatient you might want to have a look at our
extensive example repository and run the
included examples. Here for instance is how you run the included basics
example:
git clone https://github.com/actix/examples
cd examples/basics
cargo run