Rust Web Development with Rocket: A practical guide to building your own web applications using Rust and the Rocket framework

Explore the world of Rocket-fueled web application development and the power of the Rust programming language

Key Features

• Discover solutions to the common problems faced while creating web applications with Rocket
• Learn everything about Rust, from structs and crates to generics and debugging
• Combine Rust and Rocket to create, test, and deploy a full-featured web app

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Master the basics of Rust, such as its syntax, packages, and tools
• Get to grips with Rocket's tooling and ecosystem
• Extend your Rocket applications using Rust and third-party libraries
• Create a full-fledged web app with Rocket that handles user content
• Write pattern-matching logic and handle Rust object lifetimes
• Use APIs and async programming to make your apps secure and reliable
• Test your Rocket application and deploy it to production
• Containerize and scale your applications for maximum efficiency

Who this book is for

This web development book is for software engineers who want to learn how to use the Rocket framework to build web applications. Although not mandatory, basic knowledge of the Rust programming language will help you understand the topics covered easily.

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

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.