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Rust Web Development with Rocket

Rust Web Development with Rocket

By : Karuna Murti
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Rust Web Development with Rocket

Rust Web Development with Rocket

4.3 (6)
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)
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Part 1: An Introduction to the Rust Programming Language and the Rocket Web Framework
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Part 2: An In-Depth Look at Rocket Web Application Development
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Part 3: Finishing the Rust Web Application Development

Displaying posts – text, photo, and video

In the previous chapters, we implemented user management, including listing, showing, creating, updating, and deleting user entities. Now, we want to do the same with posts. To refresh your memory, we are planning to have User posts. The posts can be either text, photos, or videos.

When we implemented the application skeleton, we created a Post struct in src/models/post.rs with the following content:

pub struct Post {
    pub uuid: Uuid,
    pub user_uuid: Uuid,
    pub post_type: PostType,
    pub content: String,
    pub created_at: OurDateTime,
}

The plan is to use post_type to differentiate a post based on its type and use the content field to store the content of the post.

Now that we have rehashed what we wanted to do, let's implement showing the posts:

  1. The first thing we want to do is to...

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