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Rust Web Programming

Rust Web Programming - Third Edition

By : Maxwell Flitton
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Rust Web Programming

Rust Web Programming

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By: Maxwell Flitton

Overview of this book

Rust is no longer just for systems programming. This book will show you why this safe and performant language is a crucial up-and-coming option for developing web applications, and get you on your way to building fully functional Rust web apps. You don’t need any experience with Rust to get started, and this new edition also comes with a shallower learning curve. You’ll get hands-on with emerging Rust web frameworks including Actix, Axum, Rocket, and Hyper. You’ll look at injecting Rust into the frontend with WebAssembly and HTTPS configuration with NGINX. Later, you’ll move on to more advanced async topics, exploring TCP and framing, and implementing async systems. As you work through the book, you’ll build a to-do application with authentication using a microservice architecture that compiles into one Rust binary, including the embedding of a frontend JavaScript application in the same binary. The application will have end-to-end atomic testing and a deployment pipeline. By the end of this book, you’ll fully understand the significance of Rust for web development. You’ll also have the confidence to build robust, functional, and scalable Rust web applications from scratch.
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Injecting Rust in the Frontend with WebAssembly

You have probably heard about WebAssembly (WASM). At the time of writing this book, the WASM ecosystem is still in the early rapid development phases, where APIs get outdated quickly, and groups trying out a new approach cease to exist but have remnants of their approach throughout the internet. This can lead to frustration as you burn hours trying to figure out what API does what. However, the promise of compile once and run anywhere, including the browser, is a clear advantage, so it makes sense to understand and get comfortable with WASM.

In this chapter, we are going to keep the interactions with APIs to a minimum and focus on concepts around serving WASM modules to the frontend to be loaded and used in the browser. We are also going to explore directly interacting with the raw memory addresses in WASM so we can transfer complex data types across the WASM boundary, and we are going to load WASM binaries using Rust to also interact...

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