axum VS actix-web

Compare axum vs actix-web and see what are their differences.

axum

Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper (by tokio-rs)

actix-web

Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust. (by actix)
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axum actix-web
149 170
15,646 20,056
6.2% 2.4%
9.3 9.2
5 days ago 3 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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axum

Posts with mentions or reviews of axum. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-21.
  • Prodzilla: From Zero to Prod with Rust and Shuttle
    6 projects | dev.to | 21 Feb 2024
    Moreover, I especially like where Rust is right now in the web space. It really feels like there’s a lot of smart people working on the next generation of web development tools - it feels like the place to be. There are a range of great open-source web dev tools that are just reaching critical levels of maturity. Axum, which I used to build Prodzilla, feels ready for out of the box web dev, and is crazy-performant, as I write about later. More recently available is Loco, a Rails-like framework for building web applications in Rust that's picking up steam. And in dev-tooling and hosting there’s Shuttle, a 1-line hosting solution for Rust backends.
  • CryptoFlow: Building a secure and scalable system with Axum and SvelteKit - Part 1
    3 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2024
    CryptoFlow is a full-stack web application built with Axum and SvelteKit. It's a Q&A system tailored towards the world of cryptocurrency!
  • Cryptoflow: Building a secure and scalable system with Axum and SvelteKit - Part 0
    12 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2024
    You also get to specify the accepted HTTP method of the URL via axum::routing. To answer its name, modularity, Axum also supports nested routes as we'll see later in this series. Next is the layer, a method used to apply tower::Layer to all routes before it. This means that routes added after the layer method will not have such a layer applied to their requests. In our case, we used the layer to add tracing to all HTTP requests and responses to our routes. This is needed for proper logging. The tower_http::trace::TraceLayer can even be really customised.
  • My first project with rust
    3 projects | /r/rust | 8 Dec 2023
    I build simple rust axum api server with Prisma client rust. This is my something done with rust and I really enjoyed rust!
  • Getting Started with Axum - Rust's Most Popular Framework
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Dec 2023
    In this article we'll take a comprehensive look at how to use Axum to write a web service. This will also include the 0.7 changes.
  • Trying out Leptos: Fine-grained Reactive Framework for Rust
    4 projects | dev.to | 18 Oct 2023
    You have a couple of options for the underlying web framework to pair with Leptos: Axum or Actix. Axum seems to carry more favour currently, so we start with that. Assuming you already have Rust set up on your system:
  • Help required: Port kellnr from rocket.rs to axum
    2 projects | /r/rust | 6 Oct 2023
    I’m the author of https://kellnr.io. When I started working on Kellnr three years ago, https://rocket.rs was “the web framework” to use. Unfortunately, the project seems dead. Before adding more functionality using an unmaintained framework, I want to port Kellnr to https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum.
  • Grimoire - A recipe management application.
    7 projects | /r/rust | 5 Oct 2023
    Web Framework : axum.
  • Proper type for axum SSE stream
    2 projects | /r/learnrust | 29 Sep 2023
    I am trying to stream a response from the OpenAI API as an SSE with axum. I have combined the following examples from the async-openai and axum repos to produce the below code I've used iterators in Rust but have not used streams, I have no idea how to reconcile the types here and don't know where to start to solve the problem. A solution or any pointers would be greatly appreciated. https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/tree/axum-v0.6.20/examples/sse https://github.com/64bit/async-openai/tree/main/examples/chat-stream ``rust async fn sse_handler( TypedHeader(user_agent): TypedHeader, ) -> Sse>> { println!("{}` connected", user_agent.as_str());
  • Introduction to the Tower library
    2 projects | dev.to | 23 Aug 2023
    -- axum README

actix-web

Posts with mentions or reviews of actix-web. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing axum and actix-web you can also consider the following projects:

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

poem - A full-featured and easy-to-use web framework with the Rust programming language.

Tide - Fast and friendly HTTP server framework for async Rust

warp - A super-easy, composable, web server framework for warp speeds.

tonic - A native gRPC client & server implementation with async/await support.

hyper - An HTTP library for Rust

salvo - A powerful web framework built with a simplified design.

tokio - A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

rust-web-framework-comparison - A comparison of some web frameworks and libs written in Rust

Gotham - A flexible web framework that promotes stability, safety, security and speed.

rust-web-benchmarks - Benchmarking web frameworks written in rust with rewrk tool.