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atomicdata-dev / atomic-server

An open source headless CMS / real-time database. Powerful table editor, full-text search, and SDKs for JS / React / Svelte.

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Consider Axum instead of Actix-Web #501

Open joepio opened 2 years ago

joepio commented 2 years ago

When I started with this project, actix-web was by far the most powerful and versitile web framework for rust. But it's been a couple of years, and things have changed. The tokio team have created Axum, which has a couple of advantages over Actix-Web:

Actively maintained by the creators
More readable documentation / easier to understand abstractions
Seems to support sub-domains (useful for multi-tenant stuff #288)

But there's also a couple of things I need to find out, before switching:

[ ] File upload / download. Multipart support is there.
[ ] Static files such as the js assets, preferably compiles into the binary. Seems to be there. Can also be done with tower servedir
[ ] Websockets. Yep, with

AlexMikhalev commented 1 year ago

I am fond of Poem - it can do everything the above.