WebSockets

Actix Web supports a high-level WebSocket interface via the actix-ws crate. Using this crate, it's possible to convert a request's Payload stream into a stream of ws::Messages and then react to them inside a spawned async task.

The following is an example of a simple WebSocket echo server:

A simple WebSocket echo server example is available in the examples repo.

An example chat server is also available in the examples directory