What's a good backend framework for beginners to start with?

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  1. tokio

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

    From what I've seen over the past year or so on this subreddit, people are pretty big fans of actix-web. However, axum, a new-ish framework made by tokio (the most popular async framework) has been hugely popular. I've seen a lot of people say they prefer it over actix-web.

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  3. actix-web

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

    From what I've seen over the past year or so on this subreddit, people are pretty big fans of actix-web. However, axum, a new-ish framework made by tokio (the most popular async framework) has been hugely popular. I've seen a lot of people say they prefer it over actix-web.

  4. zero-to-production

    Code for "Zero To Production In Rust", a book on API development using Rust.

    If you don’t have too much clue on rust ecosystem or about backend development, check out https://www.zero2prod.com

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