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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
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Section 2:Processing Data and Managing Displays
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Section 3:Data Persistence
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Section 4:Testing and Deployment

What is Warp?

Warp is a Rust web framework like Actix web. It's newer than Actix web with a lower user base at the time of writing this book because of how new the framework is, its community, and how the documentation is not as readily available as Actix web's.

At the time of writing this book, the documentation for Actix web was clearer and more comprehensive. Functionality-wise, however, Warp and Actix web are essentially the same. They both run on stable Rust (unlike Rocket), and they support the same functionality. However, the way in which Warp goes about configuring views is different. Instead of functions defining views, Warp has what we call filters.

These filters can be used to extract data from the body or the header, run a function, or define a method or URL endpoint. These filters can be chained together, giving us ultimate flexibility in terms of how we map the request and see it being processed in our API endpoints.

In the next section, we'll...

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