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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

Chapter 1: Introducing the Rust Language

Almost every programmer has heard about the Rust programming language or even tried or used it. Saying "the Rust programming language" every time is a little bit cumbersome, so let's just call it Rust, or the Rust language from this point forward.

In this chapter, we will talk a little bit about Rust to help you if you are new to this language or as a refresher if you have tried it already. This chapter might also help seasoned Rust language programmers a bit. Later in the chapter, we will learn how to install the Rust toolchain and create a simple program to introduce the features of the Rust language. We will then use third-party libraries to enhance one of our programs, and finally, we will see how we can get help for the Rust language and its libraries.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • An overview of the Rust language
  • Installing the Rust compiler and toolchain
  • Writing Hello World
  • Exploring Rust crates and Cargo
  • Exploring other tools and where to get help