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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

Cleaning up our code

Before we write any tests, we need to ensure that our code is clean. If there is code that is not being used, then it makes little sense to spend time and effort writing tests for it. If we run our to-do Rust application right now, you may notice that we get a list of warnings about unused code.

This is because we switched from storing our to-do items in a JSON file to using a PostgreSQL database. As a result, the code that handled the reading and writing to JSON files became redundant. We can remove this redundant code by deleting the src/processes.rs and src/state.rs files, and removing mod state; and mod processes; lines from the main.rs file.

Once this is done, we then remove all the functionality from all the traits in the src/to_do/structs/traits/{pending.done}.rs directory as the reading and writing of data has been passed onto the database and data model structs. We also have to remove the mod traits; line from the src/to_do/structs/mod.rs file. Now...