Rust for Modern Web Development

Rust has revolutionized modern development by providing unmatched performance and security guarantees, making it the ideal foundation for building reliable web applications. While its development has not slowed down the slightest, it already has a vibrant ecosystem to support diverse developer needs.

Readers will learn to build minimalist test applications to try out frameworks, but also a full-featured concept application around the topic of ticket management. This book will walk through a regular development cycle from design to implementation, through containerization, deployment, and even expanding the application. It will help you design a complete architecture with database, caching and security, and implement its own frontend using Rust’s WebAssembly support.

By the end of this book, you will transition from a beginner to a proficient Rust developer, capable of building, securing, and deploying enterprise-grade web services. You will be able to decide what technologies to use, when and also how. Alongside coding, this book will provide you with enough experience to write your own applications in Rust and make them fit the current industry standards.

What you will learn

● Web development in Rust and setting up your coding environment.

● Develop minimalist APIs and drop-in web applications.

● Design your application around common components like databases, messaging, etc.

● Engineer secure authentication, authorization, and role-based access control.

● Containerize and deploy your application to Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.

● Connect to various APIs and cloud services with confidence.

● Implement a frontend in Rust and WebAssembly.

Who this book is for

This book is intended for developers, students, and engineers familiar with general programming concepts. It targets both beginners and advanced learners seeking to master the complete web development workflow, utilizing the Rust ecosystem to build scalable, industrial-grade web applications.

Table of Contents

1. Beginning with Rust

2. Selection of a Tech Stack

3. Writing the Application Skeleton

4. Tickets, Workflows, and Business Rules

5. Managing Bigger Sets of Data

6. Quality Assurance and Testing

7. Access Control Solutions

8. Parallel Communications

9. Containerization and Orchestration

10. Administration, Dynamic ACLs, and Caching

11. Dynamic Schema with Diesel

12. Live Updates

13. Extending the Application

14. Drawing a Balance