Part 1: An Introduction to the Rust Programming Language and the Rocket Web Framework

In this part, you will learn about the Rust programming language, including the basics of it, how to install it on your operating system, and how to use the Rust tools and package registry. You will also create a Rocket web application and configure, compile, and run it. We will look at installing and including other packages for web applications. We will use sqlx for web application connection to relational databases.

This part comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Introducing the Rust Language
• Chapter 2, Building Our First Rocket Web Application
• Chapter 3, Rocket Requests and Responses
• Chapter 4, Building, Igniting, and Launching Rocket
• Chapter 5, Designing a User-Generated Application