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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

Technical requirements

For this and subsequent chapters, you will need to have the requirements mentioned in Chapter 1, Introducing the Rust Language, and the Rust toolchain installed. If you still don't have the Rust compiler toolchain installed, please follow the installation guide in Chapter 1, Introducing the Rust Language. Also, it would be helpful to have a text editor with a Rust extension installed and Rust tools such as rustfmt or clippy. If you don't have a text editor installed already, you can use open source software such as Visual Studio Code with the rust-analyzer extension. As we're going to make HTTP requests to the application that we're going to create, you should have a web browser or other HTTP client installed.

Finally, the Rocket framework has a few releases, all of which are slightly different. We will only be discussing Rocket 0.5.0. Don't worry if you are planning to use a different version of Rocket, as the terminology and concepts...