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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
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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

Building a uniform interface

Having a uniform interface means that our resources can be uniquely identifiable through a URL. This decouples the backend endpoints and frontend views, enabling our app to scale without clashes between the frontend views and backend endpoints. We have decoupled our backend from the frontend using the version tag. When a URL endpoint includes a version tag, such as v1 or v2, we know that call is hitting the backend Rust server. When we are developing our Rust server, we might want to work on a newer version of our API calls. However, we do not want to allow users to access the version in development. To enable live users to access one version while we deploy another version on a test server, we will need to dynamically define the API version for the server. With the knowledge that you have acquired so far in this book, you could simply define the version number in the config.yml file and load it. However, we would have to read the config.yml config file...