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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

Summary

We have finally made it to the end of structuring a web application in Rust and building the infrastructure around the application to make ongoing development of new features safe and easy to integrate. We have structured our repository into one that’s clean and easy to use where directories have individual purposes. Like in well-structured code, our well-structured repository can enable us to slot tests and scripts in and out of the repository easily. Then, we used pure bash to manage migrations for our database without any code dependencies so that we can use our migrations on any application, regardless of the language being used. Then, we built init containers to automate database migrations, which will work even when deployed on a server or cluster. We also refined the Docker builds for our server, making them more secure and reducing the size from 1.5 GB to 45 MB. After, we integrated our builds and tests into an automated pipeline that is fired when new code is...