Building a bookmarks API using Actix-web

We'll create a REST API server that allows you to store bookmarks and links to any blog or website that you wish to read later. We'll name our server linksnap. Let's create a new project by running cargo new linksnap. In this implementation, we won't be using a database for persistence for any link that is sent to our API, and will simply use an in-memory HashMap to store our entries. This means that every time our server restarts, all of the stored bookmarks will get removed. 

 

Under the linksnap/ directory, we have the following contents in Cargo.toml:

# linksnap/Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
actix = "0.7"
actix-web = "0.7"
futures = "0.1"
env_logger = "0.5"
bytes = "0.4"
serde = "1.0.80"
serde_json = "1.0.33"
serde_derive = "1.0.80"
url = "1.7.2"
log = "0.4.6"
chrono = "0.4.6"

We'll implement the following endpoints in our API server:

• /links is a GET method that retrieves a list of all links stored on the server.
• /add is a POST method that stores an entry...