Build API with Rust and Dockerize

Dockerize API with Actix Web

“Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust”

Actix is one of the web frameworks build in rust and i think this framework easy to use. this article will help you to build api expenses with actix that can get list and set the list without database (using database and CRUD complete cooming soon).

Step 1: Init App

cargo new expenses-api
cd expenses-api

Step 2: Add Dependency

Edit Cargo.toml

1. Add Binary target settings to set executable programs that can be run after being compiled

2. Add dependency actix-web, serde, lazy_static

[[bin]]
name = "expenses-api"
path = "src/main.rs"

[dependencies]
actix-web = "4"
serde = { version = "1.0.186", features = ["derive"]}
lazy_static = "1.4"

Step 3: Define Model

1. Create new file inside /src/models/expenses.rs

2. Define struct for Expenses

use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

#[derive(Deserialize, Serialize, Clone)]
pub struct Expenses {
    pub date: String,
    pub item…