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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

In this chapter, we are going to serve HTTP requests using the Apache HTTP Server (https://httpd.apache.org/). If you have a Unix-based operating system, you can usually find the Apache HTTP Server in your operating system package manager. If you have a Windows operating system, there are recommended downloads at the following link: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/platform/windows.html.

You also need to generate a TLS (Transport Layer Security) certificate using OpenSSL. If you have a Unix-based operating system, you can usually find the OpenSSL binary using the distribution's package manager. If you have a Windows operating system, you can find the recommended binary at the following link: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries.

For generating Docker images, you can use Docker Desktop from the following link: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/.

You can find the source code of this chapter at https://github.com/PacktPublishing...