How to build an API server with Rust

A step-by-step tutorial for building a scalable Rust HTTP server using Actix and MongoDB

Bret Cameron
Level Up Coding
Published in
17 min readApr 1, 2024

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In this article, we’ll walk through how to create an API server for the web using Rust and Actix, with MongoDB for our database.

Why Rust?

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Writer and developer based in London. On Medium, I mainly write about JavaScript, web development and Rust 💻