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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

Preface

Rocket is one of the first web frameworks in the Rust programming language. Rocket provides complete tooling to build web applications, such as tools for routing the requests and the strong typing of the incoming requests, and middleware to manipulate incoming requests and outgoing responses. Rocket also provides support for templating and connections to various databases.

Rocket is a web framework written in the Rust programming language. As one of the newer programming languages, Rust is designed to be performant and safe. It is easy to create a safe, multithreaded, and asynchronous application. Rust also has a strong foundation in its tooling, documentation, and community packages. All those strengths contribute to Rust's rapid growth in popularity.

This book explores building a complete web application using the Rocket web framework and the Rust programming language. You will be introduced to various techniques to build a web application that can handle incoming requests, store the data in an RDBMS, and generate proper responses back to any HTTP clients.