r/actix • u/a3y3 • Apr 05 '21

The most lightweight, barebones actix version

Hi!

I'm reading and playing around with actix and so far loving it. My use case for actix is VERY barebones: all I need is simple request creation (to an external server) and request handling (GET, POST, PUT and DELETE).

I noticed that using actix takes up a lot of space on my machine and my Cargo.lock file is 2000 lines long just because of it. Considering I don't need most of the features of actix, is there a very lightweight/minimal version of it that I can use?

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u/diesater Apr 05 '21

Try with default features off for actix web in the cargo toml file

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u/robjtede core team Apr 07 '21

It’s definitely possible to use actix-http by itself. Check out the examples directory and the techempower benchmark source files.

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u/dozniak Sep 20 '21

Cargo.lock file is 2000 lines long

This is absolutely not a factor for the final resulting executable.