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Rust Web Programming

Rust Web Programming

By : Maxwell Flitton
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Rust Web Programming

Rust Web Programming

3.5 (6)
By: Maxwell Flitton

Overview of this book

Are safety and high performance a big concern for you while developing web applications? While most programming languages have a safety or speed trade-off, Rust provides memory safety without using a garbage collector. This means that with its low memory footprint, you can build high-performance and secure web apps with relative ease. This book will take you through each stage of the web development process, showing you how to combine Rust and modern web development principles to build supercharged web apps. You'll start with an introduction to Rust and understand how to avoid common pitfalls when migrating from traditional dynamic programming languages. The book will show you how to structure Rust code for a project that spans multiple pages and modules. Next, you'll explore the Actix Web framework and get a basic web server up and running. As you advance, you'll learn how to process JSON requests and display data from the web app via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You'll also be able to persist data and create RESTful services in Rust. Later, you'll build an automated deployment process for the app on an AWS EC2 instance and Docker Hub. Finally, you'll play around with some popular web frameworks in Rust and compare them. By the end of this Rust book, you'll be able to confidently create scalable and fast web applications with Rust.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1:Setting Up the Web App Structure
4
Section 2:Processing Data and Managing Displays
8
Section 3:Data Persistence
12
Section 4:Testing and Deployment

Structuring code

Structuring code is an important part of developing any web app. Because of this, we have to get comfortable breaking down a problem into components that Rust can manage and execute. For our exercise, we will create a simple to-do program where we can create, update, and delete to-do items via a command line. This is a simple app. The process here is to explore how to build well-structured code that is scalable without getting into the weeds of the complexity of the logic of the app. In order to build this well in Rust, we are going to have to break the processes down into chunks:

  1. Build structs for pending and done to-do items.
  2. Build a factory that enables the structs to be built in the to_do module.
  3. Build traits that enable a struct to delete, create, edit, and get the to-do items. These are then imported into the factory so that the pending and done structs can implement them.
  4. Build a read and write to file module to be utilized by other modules...

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