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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
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we built user data model structs and tied them to the to-do item data models in our migrations. We then got to dive a little deeper into our migrations by firing multiple steps in the SQL file to ensure our migration runs smoothly. We also explored how to add unique constraints to certain fields.

Once our data models were defined in the database, we hashed some passwords before storing them in our database with the stored user. We then created a JWT struct to enable our users to store their JWT in their browsers so that they can submit them when making an API call. We then explored how to redirect the URL in JavaScript and the HTML storage so that the frontend can work out whether the user even has credentials, before it entertains the notion of sending API calls to the items.

What we have done here is alter the database with migration so that our app can manage data models that handle more complexity. We then utilized frontend storage to enable our user...