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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

Getting to know the initial setup for fusing code

In this section, we will cover the initial setup of two fusing pieces of code we built in Chapter 2, Designing Your Web Application in Rust, and Chapter 3, Handling HTTP Requests. This fusion will give us the following structure:

Figure 4.1 – Structure of our app and its modules

Figure 4.1 – Structure of our app and its modules

Here, we will register all the modules in the main file and then pull all these modules into the views to be used. We are essentially swapping the command-line interface from Chapter 2, Designing Your Web Application in Rust, with web views. Combining these modules gives us the following files in the code base:

├── main.rs
├── processes.rs
├── state.rs

We are then bolting our to_do module into the same directory of our main.rs file. If you built the to_do module when reading Chapter 2, Designing Your Web Application in Rust, your to_do module should have...