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Creative Projects for Rust Programmers

By : Carlo Milanesi
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Creative Projects for Rust Programmers

By: Carlo Milanesi

Overview of this book

Rust is a community-built language that solves pain points present in many other languages, thus improving performance and safety. In this book, you will explore the latest features of Rust by building robust applications across different domains and platforms. The book gets you up and running with high-quality open source libraries and frameworks available in the Rust ecosystem that can help you to develop efficient applications with Rust. You'll learn how to build projects in domains such as data access, RESTful web services, web applications, 2D games for web and desktop, interpreters and compilers, emulators, and Linux Kernel modules. For each of these application types, you'll use frameworks such as Actix, Tera, Yew, Quicksilver, ggez, and nom. This book will not only help you to build on your knowledge of Rust but also help you to choose an appropriate framework for building your project. By the end of this Rust book, you will have learned how to build fast and safe applications with Rust and have the real-world experience you need to advance in your career.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Putting it all together

You should now know enough to build an example that does what we described at the beginning of the chapter. We have learned the following:

  • How to read a TOML file to parameterize the program
  • How to load the data regarding products and sales into memory, specified in a JSON file and in an XML file
  • How to store all of this data in three places: a SQLite DB file, a PostgreSQL database, and a Redis key-value store

The source code of the complete example is found in the transformer project. To run it, open its folder and type in cargo run ../data/config.toml. If everything is successful, it will recreate and populate the SQLite database contained in the data/sales.db file, the PostgreSQL database, which can be accessed from localhost on port 5432 and is named Rust2018, and the Redis store, which can be accessed from localhost. Then, it will query the SQLite and PostgreSQL databases for the number of rows in their tables, and it will print the following:

SQLite #Products...