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Rust Programming Cookbook

By : Claus Matzinger
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Rust Programming Cookbook

By: Claus Matzinger

Overview of this book

Rust 2018, Rust's first major milestone since version 1.0, brings more advancement in the Rust language. The Rust Programming Cookbook is a practical guide to help you overcome challenges when writing Rust code. This Rust book covers recipes for configuring Rust for different environments and architectural designs, and provides solutions to practical problems. It will also take you through Rust's core concepts, enabling you to create efficient, high-performance applications that use features such as zero-cost abstractions and improved memory management. As you progress, you'll delve into more advanced topics, including channels and actors, for building scalable, production-grade applications, and even get to grips with error handling, macros, and modularization to write maintainable code. You will then learn how to overcome common roadblocks when using Rust for systems programming, IoT, web development, and network programming. Finally, you'll discover what Rust 2018 has to offer for embedded programmers. By the end of the book, you'll have learned how to build fast and safe applications and services using Rust.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Setting up a web server

Over the last few years, web servers have changed. Where early web applications have been deployed behind some sort of web server application such as Apache Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org/), IIS (https://www.iis.net/), and nginx (https://www.nginx.com/), it is now more common to embed the serving part into the application as well. Not only is this easier on the Ops people, it also allows developers to have tight control over the entire application. Let's see how we can get started and set up a basic static web server.

Getting ready

Let's set up a Rust binary project using cargo new static-web. Since we are going to serve stuff on local port 8081, make sure that the port is accessible as...