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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

Getting to know the initial setup

In this section, we will cover the initial setup of two fusing pieces of code we built in Chapter 2, Designing Your Web Application in Rust, with the code that we built in Chapter 3, Handling HTTP Requests. This fusion will give us the following structure:

Figure 4.1 – Structure of our app and its modules

Here, we will register all the modules in the main file, and then pull all these modules into the views to be used. We are essentially swapping the command-line interface from Chapter 2, Designing Your Web Application in Rust, with web views. Combining these modules gives us the following files in the code base:

├── main.rs
├── processes.rs
├── state.rs

Our to_do module that we will be bolting on has the following structure:

├── to_do
│   ├── mod.rs
│   └...