Actix Real World (🚧 work in progress 🚧)

The mother of all demo apps

This (will) complies with the real world specification

This application will be built using the OpenAPI in openapi.yaml

Tooling

HTTP:

• actix: Web framework

Log:

• tracing: Scoped, structural logging and diagnostics system
• tracing-actix-web: Telemetry middleware for actix-web applications
• secrecy: Wrapper to handle secret values
• sqlx: Async SQL toolkit

Security:

• rustsec.org: Vulnerability database for the Rust ecosystem

Tests:

• fake: Generate fake data
• quickcheck: Random testing for property testing
• quickcheck_macros: Macros for quickcheck
• rand: Random number generator
• reqwest: High-level HTTP client
• validator: Simple struct validation
• wiremock: Mocking HTTP

Secondary Goals

The goal of this project is just to get familiar with the Actix web framework. I'll probably be writing about those topics.

• Docs
• Testing
• Error Handling
• Group requests
• Data handling (json and form)
• Middleware (integrated and custom)
• Authentication (user/pass, OAuth2, session management)
• Protocols HTTP, HTTP2, HTTPS, RPC, Server Sent Events (SSE) and WebSocket
• DB integration with sqlx and diesel
• Templating (probably with htmx)
• CORS
• Rate limitation
• Logging
• Tracing
• Security
• Multithreading

Known Issues