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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

What we have essentially done here is build a program that accepts some command-line inputs, interacts with a file, and edits it depending on the command and data from that file. The data is fairly simple: a title and a status.

We could have done this all in the main function with multiple match statements and if, else if, and else blocks. However, this is not scalable. Instead, we built structs that inherited other structs, which then implemented traits. We then packaged the construction of these structs into a factory enabling other files to use all that functionality in a single line of code.

We then built a processing interface so the command input, state, and struct could be processed, enabling us to stack on extra functionality and change the flow of the process with a few lines of code. Our main function only has to focus on collecting the command-line arguments and coordinating when to call the module interfaces. We have now explored and utilized how Rust manages...