Build a real-time chat app with Rust and React

• rust-react-chat

  1 63 10.0 Rust

  Example rust with react chat web application.

In this article, we discussed the features of WebSockets, its applications in Rust, and how to use it with the actix-web package. We demonstrated how to create an efficient, real-time chat application, using React and Next.js to establish WebSocket connections to the Actix Web server. The code from this article is available on GitHub.

• actix-web

  171 20,249 9.1 Rust

  Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

  

There are many packages we can use to write a WebSocket server in Rust. For this tutorial, we’ll use Actix Web; it is a mature package and is easy to use.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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