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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

To get the most out of this book

You will need a Rust compiler by installing Rustup and the stable toolchain on your computer. You can use Linux, macOS, or Windows. For macOS users, it is recommended to use Homebrew. For Windows users, it is recommended to install Rustup using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL or WSL 2).

All the code in this book has been tested on Arch Linux and macOS, but they should work on other Linux distributions or the Windows operating system as well.

Since Rust is a compiled language, various development headers might have to be installed on your computer, for example, libssl-dev or libpq-dev. Pay attention to error messages when compiling the code sample in this book, and install the required libraries for your operating system and development environment if needed.

Further along in the book, in Chapter 10, we are going to process videos using the FFmpeg command line.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book's GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.