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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 WebAssembly

In the past, almost all applications in the web browser were made using the JavaScript language. There were also attempts to use different languages in the web browser, such as Java Applet, Adobe Flash, and Silverlight. But, all those different attempts were not web standards, and, therefore, the adoption of those attempts was not as universal as JavaScript.

However, there is a way to use other programming languages in the web browser: by using WebAssembly. WebAssembly is both a binary executable format and its corresponding text format for a stack-based virtual machine. Web browsers that support WebAssembly can execute the binary executable format. Any programming language that can be compiled into WebAssembly can be executed by web browsers.

In 2015, WebAssembly was announced and was first released in March 2017. All major web browser vendors finished the release of browsers with minimum support for WebAssembly in September 2017, and then World Wide...