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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)

Project overview

This chapter will present four projects that will get more and more complex. You have already seen the first two projects in action: incr and adder. The third project, named login, shows how to create a login page for authentication on a website.

The fourth project, named yauth, extends the login project adding the CRUD handling of a list of persons. Its behavior is almost identical to that of the auth project in Chapter 4, Creating a Full Server-Side Web App. Each project will require from 1 to 3 minutes to download and compile from scratch.

Getting started

To start all the machinery, a very simple statement is enough – the body of the main function:

 yew::start_app::<Model>();

It creates a web app based on the specified Model, starts it, and waits on the default TCP port. Of course, the TCP port can be changed. It is a server that will serve the app to any browser navigating to it.