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Rust Web Development with Rocket

By : Karuna Murti
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Rust Web Development with Rocket

By: Karuna Murti

Overview of this book

Looking for a fast, powerful, and intuitive framework to build web applications? This Rust book will help you kickstart your web development journey and take your Rust programming skills to the next level as you uncover the power of Rocket - a fast, flexible, and fun framework powered by Rust. Rust Web Development with Rocket wastes no time in getting you up to speed with what Rust is and how to use it. You’ll discover what makes it so productive and reliable, eventually mastering all of the concepts you need to play with the Rocket framework while developing a wide set of web development skills. Throughout this book, you'll be able to walk through a hands-on project, covering everything that goes into making advanced web applications, and get to grips with the ins and outs of Rocket development, including error handling, Rust vectors, and wrappers. You'll also learn how to use synchronous and asynchronous programming to improve application performance and make processing user content easy. By the end of the book, you'll have answers to all your questions about creating a web application using the Rust language and the Rocket web framework.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: An Introduction to the Rust Programming Language and the Rocket Web Framework
7
Part 2: An In-Depth Look at Rocket Web Application Development
14
Part 3: Finishing the Rust Web Application Development

Technical requirements

For this chapter, we have the same technical requirements as the previous chapter. We need a Rust compiler, a text editor, an HTTP client, and a PostgreSQL database server.

For the text editor, you can try adding an extension supporting the Tera template. If there is no extension for Tera, try adding an extension for a Jinja2 or Django template and set the file association to include the *.tera file.

We are going to add CSS to our application, and we are going to use stylesheets from https://minicss.org/ since it's small and open source. Feel free to use and modify the example HTML with other stylesheets.

You can find the source code for this chapter at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Rust-Web-Development-with-Rocket/tree/main/Chapter08.