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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 web app accessing a RESTful service

The previous section described a rather complex software architecture, but still running only in the user's web browser, after having being served by the site where it is installed. This is quite unusual, as most web apps actually communicate with some other process. Typically, the same site that provides the frontend app also provides a backend service, that is, a web service to let the app access shared data residing on the server.

In this section, we'll see a pair of projects that can be downloaded from the repository:

  • yclient: This is an app quite similar to the yauth app. Actually, it is developed using Yew and Wasm, and it has the same look and behavior as yauth; though its data, which is the authorized users and the persons stored in the mock database, no longer resides in the app itself, but in another app, which is accessed through an HTTP connection.
  • persons_db: This is the RESTful service that provides access to the data for...