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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)

A simple list of persons

Now, we can examine the list project. If you run the server in a console and you access the localhost:8080 address from a web browser, you will see the following page in the browser:

There is a heading, a label, a text field, a push button, and a table containing a list of three people.

The only thing you can do on this page is type something into the text field and then click on the button to apply the typed text as a filter. For example, if you type l (that is, a lowercase L), only the Hamlet and Othello lines will appear as they are the only two people whose name contains this letter. If the filter is x, the result will be the No persons text as none of the three people has a name containing this letter. The page will look as in the following screenshot:

Before explaining how it all works, let's see the dependencies of this project; that is, the external crates used by it. They are as follows:

  • actix-web: This is the web framework, also used in Chapter...