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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

Introducing the Tera template

In web applications, there's usually a part that works as a web template system. Web designers and web developers can create web templates, and the web application generates HTML pages from the templates.

There are different kinds of web templates: server-side web templates (in which the template is rendered on the server-side), client-side web templates (where client-side applications render the template), or hybrid web templates.

There are a couple of templating engines in Rust. We can find templating engines for web development (such as Handlebars, Tera, Askama, or Liquid) at https://crates.io or https:/lib.rs.

The Rocket web framework has built-in support for templating in the form of the rocket_dyn_templates crate. Currently, the crate only supports two engines: Handlebars and Tera. In this book, we are going to use Tera as the template engine to simplify the development, but feel free to try the Handlebars engine as well.

Tera is...