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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

Summary

In this final chapter, we have learned how to improve and scale a Rocket application. We can use various tools to improve Rocket applications, such as adding logging, tracing, monitoring, and mailers. We also learned a little bit about principles for scaling Rocket applications.

Finally, we learned about alternative Rust web frameworks such as Actix Web, Tide, 13 and Warp.

We started this book by learning how to create and build Rust application, and tools for working with Rust such as Cargo. We then learned the basics of Rocket applications such as the life cycle of requests and how to configure a Rocket application.

We then continued by learning about more concepts such as Rocket routes, and route parts such as HTTP method, path, format, and data. To handle a route, we have to create a function that receives the request object and returns the response object.

Continuing the basics of Rocket, we learned more about Rocket components such as state, connecting a...