If anyone is interested in trying out actix (or rust in general) for fullstack app development, you can quickly kickstart a project using create-rust-app[1].
Thanks for the feedback Chris :) I'll see what I can do about the demo videos in the repository.
However, the 8MB compiled bundle is for those users who create projects with the admin plugin -- it gives them a dashboard into their database. It's still a work in progress, and I think moving it into a separate package should be considered (something on npm, I'd imagine)
[1]: https://github.com/Wulf/create-rust-app