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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

Understanding Rocket routes

We begin our chapter by discussing how Rocket handles incoming requests in the form of routes. We write functions that can be used to handle incoming requests, put route attribute above those functions, and attach the route handling functions to the Rocket. A route has an HTTP method and a URI, which corresponds to the URL path and URL query. The URI can be static, dynamic, or a combination of both. As well as a URI, there are other parameters in a route: rank, format, and data. We'll talk about them in detail later, but first, let's see how we can write a route in our code. Just like previously, let's create a new Rust application and add Rocket as a dependency. After that, let's add the following lines in the src/main.rs file:

#[macro_use]
extern crate rocket;
use rocket::{Build, Rocket};
#[derive(FromForm)]
struct Filters {
    age: u8,
    active: bool,
}
#[route(GET...