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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

Chapter 11: Securing and Adding an API and JSON

Two of the most important aspects of a web application are authentication and authorization. In this chapter, we are going to learn how to implement simple authentication and authorization systems. After we have created these systems, we are going to learn how to create a simple Application Programming Interface (API) and how to protect the API endpoint using a JSON Web Token (JWT).

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to create an authentication system, with functionality such as logging in and logging out and setting access rights for logged-in users. You will also be able to create an API server and know how to secure the API endpoints.

In this chapter, we are going to cover these main topics:

  • Authenticating users
  • Authorizing users
  • Handling JSON
  • Protecting the API with a JWT