Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.
For all intents and purposes it’s a micro-framework with a few twists.
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 nginx or serve it up as-is. Even in the complete absence of another HTTP server actix-web is powerful enough to provide HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 support as well as TLS (HTTPS). This makes it useful for building small services ready for production.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2.
- Streaming and pipelining.
- Powerful request routing with optional macros.
- Full Tokio compatibility.
- Keep-alive and slow requests handling.
- Client/server WebSockets support.
- Transparent content compression/decompression (br, gzip, deflate, zstd).
- Multipart streams.
- Static assets.
- SSL support using OpenSSL or Rustls.
- Middlewares (Logger, Session, CORS, etc).
- Integrates with the awc HTTP client.
- Runs on stable Rust 1.54+.
Website: actix.rs
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Actix Team
License: Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT License
Actix Web is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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