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Quick start

Before you can start writing an actix application, you’ll need a version of Rust installed. We recommend you use rustup to install or configure such a version.

Install Rust​

Before we begin, we need to install Rust using the rustup installer:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

If you already have rustup installed, run this command to ensure you have the latest version of Rust:

rustup update

The actix framework requires Rust version 1.40.0 and up.

Running Examples​

The fastest way to start experimenting with actix is to clone the actix repository and run the included examples in the examples/ directory. The following set of commands runs the ping example:

git clone https://github.com/actix/actix
cd actix
cargo run --example ping

Check examples/ directory for more examples.