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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

Modularizing the Rocket application

Remember in Chapter 1, Introducing the Rust Language, when we made an application with modules? One of the functions of the application source code is to use it as documentation for the people working on the application. A good readable code can be easily further developed and shared with other people on the team.

The compiler does not care whether the program is in one file or multiple files; the resulting application binary is the same. However, people working on a single, long file can get confused very easily.

We are going to split our application source code into smaller files and categorize the files into different modules. Programmers come from various backgrounds and may have their own paradigm on how to split the source code of the application. For example, programmers who are used to writing Java programs may prefer organizing their code based on the logical entities or classes. People who are used to Model-Viev-Controller (MVC) frameworks...