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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)
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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

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  1. When it comes to manual testing, you may forget to run a certain procedure. Running tests standardizes our standards and enables us to integrate them into continuous integration tools to ensure new code will not break the server as continuous integration can block new code merges if the code fails.
  2. Unit tests isolate individual components such as functions and structs. These functions and structs are then assessed with a range of fake inputs to assess how the component interacts with different inputs. Functional tests assess the system, hitting API endpoints, and checking the response.
  3. Unit tests are lightweight and do not need an entire system to run. They can test a whole set of edge cases quickly. Unit tests can also isolate exactly where the error is.
  4. Unit tests are essentially isolated tests with made-up inputs. If the type of input is changed in the system but not updated in the unit test, then this test will essentially pass when it should fail. Unit...