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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
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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

In this chapter, we covered the basics of threading, futures, and async functions. As a result, we were able to look at a multi-server solution in the wild and understand confidently what was going on. With this, we built on the concepts we learned in the previous chapter to build modules that define views. In addition, we chained factories to enable our views to be constructed on the fly and added to a server. With this chained factory mechanism, we can slot entire view modules in and out of a configuration when the server is being built.

We also built a utility struct that defines a path, standardizing the definition of a URL for a set of views. In future chapters, we will use this approach to build authentication, JSON serialization, and frontend modules. With what we’ve covered, we’ll be able to build views that extract and return data from the user in a range of different ways in the next chapter. With this modular understanding, we have a strong foundation...