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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

Implementing Rocket traits

Most of the logic that we have defined in our modules that we copied over can be directly referenced in our code. However, we do have to utilize the database connection and the JWT struct that had Actix Web trait implementations. If we are to copy over our views, we are going to have to implement Rocket traits for the database connection and JWT authentication because we pass them into our view functions in the Actix Web application.

Before we implement the Rocket traits, we must copy over the JWT file with the following command:

cp web_app/src/jwt.rs rocket_app/src/jwt.rs

We then must declare the following dependency in the Cargo.toml file with the following code:

jsonwebtoken = "8.1.0"

We can now move on to the src/jwt.rs file for our Rocket trait implementation. First, we must import the following traits and structs at the top of the file with the following code:

use rocket::http::Status;
use rocket::request::{self, Outcome...