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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

Summary

In this appendix, we went through a variety of Warp concepts that we need to understand if we wish to replicate the to-do application in the Warp framework. Here, we defined some routes, and then connected these routes to a database. We then chained filters together to map out a range checks, including token presence, body, size, and fields, before processing our view. With this, we created a create to-do view that utilized all of these concepts. Editing, deleting, and creating to-do items can all be done in Warp with the concepts that we have covered.

We also utilized the modular code that we have been developing over the course of this book. It is testament to the power of modular coding that these modules could be merely copied in and plugged into our Warp server to be utilized. As stated in the previous chapter, Chapter 11, Understanding Rocket Web Framework, we can copy and paste the rendering module that we built in Chapter 5, Displaying Content in the Browser. This...