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Rust Web Development with Rocket

By : Karuna Murti
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Rust Web Development with Rocket

By: Karuna Murti

Overview of this book

Looking for a fast, powerful, and intuitive framework to build web applications? This Rust book will help you kickstart your web development journey and take your Rust programming skills to the next level as you uncover the power of Rocket - a fast, flexible, and fun framework powered by Rust. Rust Web Development with Rocket wastes no time in getting you up to speed with what Rust is and how to use it. You’ll discover what makes it so productive and reliable, eventually mastering all of the concepts you need to play with the Rocket framework while developing a wide set of web development skills. Throughout this book, you'll be able to walk through a hands-on project, covering everything that goes into making advanced web applications, and get to grips with the ins and outs of Rocket development, including error handling, Rust vectors, and wrappers. You'll also learn how to use synchronous and asynchronous programming to improve application performance and make processing user content easy. By the end of the book, you'll have answers to all your questions about creating a web application using the Rust language and the Rocket web framework.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: An Introduction to the Rust Programming Language and the Rocket Web Framework
7
Part 2: An In-Depth Look at Rocket Web Application Development
14
Part 3: Finishing the Rust Web Application Development

Getting help

Getting help with a web framework is essential. In this part, we will see where we can get help and documentation for the Rocket framework.

You can get help from the website of the Rocket framework itself: https://rocket.rs/. On that website, there is a guide as follows: https://rocket.rs/v0.5-rc/guide/. In the top-left corner of that page, there is a dropdown where you can choose documentation for previous versions of the Rocket web framework.

At https://api.rocket.rs, you can see the documentation for the API, but, unfortunately, this documentation is for the master branch of the Rocket web framework. If you want to see the API documentation for your framework version, you have to manually search for it, such as https://api.rocket.rs/v0.3/rocket/ or https://api.rocket.rs/v0.4/rocket/.

There is an alternative way to generate offline documentation for the Rocket framework. Go and download the source code of Rocket from the official repository at https://github...