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Rust Web Development with Rocket

By : Karuna Murti
Book Image

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

Setting up the Apache HTTP Server with a Rocket application

We know that Rocket has TLS support in its configuration, so we can set the TCP port to 443, the default HTTPS connection port. In some cases, it might be acceptable to run web applications directly, for example, when we want to serve content for microservices.

One of the reasons why we don't want to run the Rocket application directly is because of this warning in the Rocket guide:

Rocket's built-in TLS implements only TLS 1.2 and 1.3. It may not be suitable for production use.

The TLS library used by the Rocket framework might not be suitable for production use for various reasons, such as security reasons or it is not yet audited.

There are other reasons why we do not want to serve content directly from Rocket aside from the TLS library problem. One example is when we want to serve multiple applications from a single computer. We might want to serve PHP applications from the same machine too.

One...