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Rust Web Programming - Second Edition

By : Maxwell Flitton
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Rust Web Programming - Second Edition

By: Maxwell Flitton

Overview of this book

Are safety and high performance a big concern for you while developing web applications? With this practical Rust book, you’ll discover how you can implement Rust on the web to achieve the desired performance and security as you learn techniques and tooling to build fully operational web apps. In this second edition, you’ll get hands-on with implementing emerging Rust web frameworks, including Actix, Rocket, and Hyper. It also features HTTPS configuration on AWS when deploying a web application and introduces you to Terraform for automating the building of web infrastructure on AWS. What’s more, this edition also covers advanced async topics. Built on the Tokio async runtime, this explores TCP and framing, implementing async systems with the actor framework, and queuing tasks on Redis to be consumed by a number of worker nodes. Finally, you’ll go over best practices for packaging Rust servers in distroless Rust Docker images with database drivers, so your servers are a total size of 50Mb each. By the end of this book, you’ll have confidence in your skills to build robust, functional, and scalable web applications from scratch.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1:Getting Started with Rust Web Development
4
Part 2:Processing Data and Managing Displays
8
Part 3:Data Persistence
12
Part 4:Testing and Deployment
16
Part 5:Making Our Projects Flexible
19
Part 6:Exploring Protocol Programming and Async Concepts with Low-Level Network Applications

Managing User Sessions

At this point, our app is manipulating data in a proper database through the clicking of buttons on the view. However, anyone who comes across our app can also edit the data. While our app is not the type of app that would require a lot of security, it is an important concept to understand and practice in general web development.

In this chapter, we will build a system that creates users. This system will also manage user sessions by requiring the user to log in before they can alter any to-do items through the frontend app.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating user data models with relationships with other tables with unique constraints of certain fields via database migrations
  • Authenticating our users
  • Managing user sessions
  • Cleaning up authentication requirements
  • Configuring expiration of auth tokens
  • Adding authentication into our frontend

After reading this chapter, you will be able to understand...