Rust Web Development with Rocket: A practical guide to starting your journey in Rust web development using the Rocket framework

by Karuna Murti

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800560826
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	420
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Karuna Murti started out as a network engineer in Indonesia back in 2005. After that, he continued his career as a web developer, engineering manager, and chief engineer at a consulting company, using various languages such as PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Fortran, and Python. He also worked with web applications and frameworks such as Magento, WordPress, and Ruby on Rails. In 2015, after establishing his own consulting company, he moved to Japan and now works as a technical lead at Merpay, one of the leading mobile payment apps in Japan. He is helping the company to build a cashless society by leading a team that connects millions of users with thousands of financial institutions in Japan. Even though he uses Go as the main language in his day job, Rust and Rocket have been a passion of his ever since their release.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introducing the Rust Language
2. Building Our First Rocket Web Application
3. Rocket Requests and Responses
4. Building, Igniting, and Launching Rocket
5. Designing a User-Generated Application
6. Implementing User CRUD
7. Handling Errors in Rust and Rocket
8. Serving Static Assets and Templates
9. Displaying Users' Post
10. Uploading and Processing Posts
11. Securing and Adding an API and JSON
12. Testing Your Application
13. Launching a Rocket Application
14. Building a Full Stack Application
15. Improving the Rocket Application