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Rust Web Programming

By : Maxwell Flitton
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Rust Web Programming

By: Maxwell Flitton

Overview of this book

Are safety and high performance a big concern for you while developing web applications? While most programming languages have a safety or speed trade-off, Rust provides memory safety without using a garbage collector. This means that with its low memory footprint, you can build high-performance and secure web apps with relative ease. This book will take you through each stage of the web development process, showing you how to combine Rust and modern web development principles to build supercharged web apps. You'll start with an introduction to Rust and understand how to avoid common pitfalls when migrating from traditional dynamic programming languages. The book will show you how to structure Rust code for a project that spans multiple pages and modules. Next, you'll explore the Actix Web framework and get a basic web server up and running. As you advance, you'll learn how to process JSON requests and display data from the web app via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You'll also be able to persist data and create RESTful services in Rust. Later, you'll build an automated deployment process for the app on an AWS EC2 instance and Docker Hub. Finally, you'll play around with some popular web frameworks in Rust and compare them. By the end of this Rust book, you'll be able to confidently create scalable and fast web applications with Rust.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1:Setting Up the Web App Structure
4
Section 2:Processing Data and Managing Displays
8
Section 3:Data Persistence
12
Section 4:Testing and Deployment

Automating Postman tests with Newman

In order to automate the series of tests, in this section, we will export our to-do item collection in the correct sequence, but first, we have to export the collection as a JSON file. This can be done by clicking on our collection in Postman on the left-hand navigation bar, and clicking the grayed-out Export button as seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 9.6 – Exporting our Postman collection

Now that we have exported the collection, we can quickly inspect it in order to see how the file is structured. The following code defines the header of the suite of tests:

{
"info": {
     "_postman_id": "bab28260-c096-49b9-81e6-b56fc5f60e9d",
     "name": "to_do_items",
     "schema": 
     "https://schema.getpostman.com
     /json...