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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 a clean test pipeline

When it comes to testing our application, we want to package it in the Docker image that we wish to deploy onto the servers, run migrations on the database as we would on the servers, and run a series of Postman requests and tests to mimic a user making a series of requests. This can be orchestrated with one Bash script in the scripts/run_full_release_test.sh file. First, we must find out what chip we are running on with the following code:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# navigate to directory
SCRIPTPATH="$( cd "$(dirname "$0")" ; pwd -P )"
cd $SCRIPTPATH
if [ "$(uname -m)" = "arm64" ]
then
    cp ../builds/aarch64_build ../Dockerfile
else
    cp ../builds/x86_64_build ../Dockerfile
fi

Here, we pull the correct build depending on the type of chip. Depending on the computer you are using, this might be different. I am using a Mac M1, so when I call the uname -m command...