Which API Framework?

[BanjoFox]

A primary goal for the project is to create an API which allows for the Aardwolf-Social app to be built in a modular way. The proposed modules are:

• Frontend
• Backend
• Database
• Networking (part of backend?)

Step zero in for this goal is to pick an API framework to use. Some options that come to mind are:

• Actix/Actix Web: https://actix.rs
  -- We're already using this for a lot of backend work.

• Tower/Tower Web -- https://github.com/carllerche/tower-web
  -- Advertised as being able to write leaner code by avoiding boilerplate.

• Axum - https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum
  -- Leverages Tower, and claims to be modular.

[Piturnah]

I've used Axum in the past for backend projects and had a lot of success with it. I've never used Actix so I wouldn't claim to be able to compare the two from experience.