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Rust Web Programming

By : Maxwell Flitton
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Rust Web Programming

By: Maxwell Flitton

Overview of this book

Are safety and high performance a big concern for you while developing web applications? While most programming languages have a safety or speed trade-off, Rust provides memory safety without using a garbage collector. This means that with its low memory footprint, you can build high-performance and secure web apps with relative ease. This book will take you through each stage of the web development process, showing you how to combine Rust and modern web development principles to build supercharged web apps. You'll start with an introduction to Rust and understand how to avoid common pitfalls when migrating from traditional dynamic programming languages. The book will show you how to structure Rust code for a project that spans multiple pages and modules. Next, you'll explore the Actix Web framework and get a basic web server up and running. As you advance, you'll learn how to process JSON requests and display data from the web app via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You'll also be able to persist data and create RESTful services in Rust. Later, you'll build an automated deployment process for the app on an AWS EC2 instance and Docker Hub. Finally, you'll play around with some popular web frameworks in Rust and compare them. By the end of this Rust book, you'll be able to confidently create scalable and fast web applications with Rust.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1:Setting Up the Web App Structure
4
Section 2:Processing Data and Managing Displays
8
Section 3:Data Persistence
12
Section 4:Testing and Deployment

Summary

In this chapter, we built user data model structs and tied them to the to-do item data models in our migrations. We then got to dive a little deeper into our migrations by firing multiple steps in the SQL file to ensure our migration runs smoothly. We also explored how to add unique constraints to certain fields.

Once our data models were defined in the database, we hashed some passwords before storing them in our database with the stored user. We then created a JWT struct to enable our users to store their JWT in their browsers, so that they could submit them when making an API call. We then explored how to redirect the URL in JavaScript and the HTML storage so that the frontend could work out if the user even has credentials, before it entertains the notion of sending API calls to the items.

What we have done here is alter the database with a migration so that our app can manage data models that handle more complexity. We then utilized frontend storage to enable our...