Rust Backend Project with Cryptography and Actix

This is a guide to setting up a simple API using Actix Web in a Rust project.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following installed:

• Rust: The programming language for the project.
• Cargo: The Rust package manager and build tool.

Dependencies

[dependencies]
actix-web = "4.0"
actix-rt = "2.5"
serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
serde_json = "1.0"

• actix-web: The core framework for building web applications with Actix.

• actix-rt: Actix runtime for async programming.

• serde and serde_json: Serialization and deserialization of data.

Run the following command to fetch the dependencies:

cargo build

Run the API

To execute this project, it's recommended that you run the following command:

cargo watch -x run

Test the API

Open your browser or use a tool like curl to test the API:

curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/