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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

Exploring alternative Rust web frameworks

Rocket is a good web framework for the Rust programming language, but sometimes, we require other tools to build a web application. In this section, we are going to explore some alternatives to the Rocket web framework. The alternative frameworks are Actix Web, Tide, and Warp. Let's check the web frameworks one by one.

Actix Web

One good alternative to Rocket is Actix Web (https://actix.rs/). Just like Rocket, Actix Web is a web framework. Originally, it was created on top of the Actix crate, an actor framework. These days, the functionality from Actix is not used anymore as Rust's futures and async/await ecosystem is maturing.

Just like Rocket, Actix Web includes concepts such as routing, request extractor, form handler, response handler, and a middleware system. Actix Web also provides conveniences such as a static file handler, a database connection, templating, and many more.

Let's take a look at a code sample...