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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

We have finally come to the end of our journey. We have created our own docker image packaging our Rust application. We then ran this on our local computer with the protection of a NGINX container. We then deployed it onto a docker hub account enabling us to use it to deploy onto an AWS server that we set up.

It has to be noted that we have gone through the lengthy steps of configuring containers and accessing our server via SSH. This has enabled us to apply this process to other platforms as our general approach was not AWS centric. We merely used AWS to set up the server. However, if we set up a server on another provider, we will still be able to install docker on the server, deploy our image onto it, and run it with NGINX and a connection to a database.

There are few more things we can do as a developer's work is never done. However, we have covered and achieved the core basics of building a Rust web application from scratch and deploying it in an automated fashion...