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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

Building an entire automated testing pipeline

When it comes to development and testing, we need an environment that can be torn down and recreated easily. There is nothing worse than building up data in a database on your local machine to be able to develop further features using that data. However, the database container might be deleted by accident, or you may write some code that corrupts the data. Then, you must spend a lot of time recreating the data before you can get back to where you were. If the system is complex and there is missing documentation, you might forget the steps needed to recreate your data. If you are not comfortable with destroying your local database and starting again when developing and testing, there is something wrong and it is only a matter of time before you get caught out. In this section, we are going to create a single Bash script that carries out the following actions:

  1. Starts database Docker containers in the background.
  2. Compiles the Rust...