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API Platform vs Actix: What are the differences?
Developers describe API Platform as "REST and GraphQL framework to build modern API-first projects". It is a set of tools to build and consume web APIs. You can build a fully-featured hypermedia or GraphQL API in minutes. Leverage its awesome features to develop complex and high performance API-first projects. Extend or override everything you want. On the other hand, Actix is detailed as "An actor system and web framework for Rust". It web is a simple, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust. Actors are objects which encapsulate state and behavior, they communicate exclusively by exchanging messages.
API Platform and Actix can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Actix is an open source tool with 3.3K GitHub stars and 216 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Actix's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Actix
- Really really really fast6
- Very safe3
- Rust3
- Open source2
Pros of API Platform
- Headless1
- Microframework1
- Symfony1
- Open source1
- Composer1
- Easy to use1
- Automated api-docs1
- Restful1
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Cons of Actix
- Lots of unsafe code3
Cons of API Platform
- Easy only for easy task like normal crud on entity2