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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 our PostgreSQL database

Up to this point in the book, we have been using a JSON file to store our to-do items. This has served us well so far. In fact, there is no reason why we cannot use a JSON file throughout the rest of the book to complete the tasks. However, if you use a JSON file for production projects, you will come across some downsides.

Why we should use a proper database

If the reads and writes to our JSON file increase, we can face some concurrency issues and data corruption. There is also no checking on the type of data. Therefore, another developer can write a function that writes different data to the JSON file, and nothing will stand in the way.

There is also an issue with migrations. If we want to add a timestamp to the to-do items, this will only affect new to-do items that we insert into the JSON file. Therefore, some of our to-do items will have a timestamp, and others won’t, which will introduce bugs into our app. Our JSON file also has...