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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

Generating Docker images for a Rocket application

Containerization has been a popular choice to ship production applications for a while. One of the most popular applications for containerization is Docker. In this section, we are going to learn how to set up Docker to run our Rocket application. To use the docker command line, please install Docker Desktop from https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/.

Follow these steps to create and run a Docker image of the Rocket application:

  1. In the root folder of the application, create a Dockerfile.
  2. There are some base images we can use to build and run the application. We are going to use Rust's official Docker image from https://hub.docker.com/_/rust. For the Linux distribution, we are going to use Alpine base because it's one of the smallest base images for Docker.

In the Dockerfile, add the first line:

FROM rust:alpine as prepare-stage
  1. Set the working directory. Append this line to the Dockerfile...