You're reading from Rust Web Programming A hands-on guide to developing, packaging, and deploying fully functional Rust web applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803234694

Length 666 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Rust

Tools

Rocket

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Maxwell Flitton

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Getting Started with Rust Web Development FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: A Quick Introduction to Rust

3. Chapter 2: Designing Your Web Application in Rust

4. Part 2:Processing Data and Managing Displays

5. Chapter 3: Handling HTTP Requests

6. Chapter 4: Processing HTTP Requests

7. Chapter 5: Displaying Content in the Browser

8. Part 3:Data Persistence

9. Chapter 6: Data Persistence with PostgreSQL

10. Chapter 7: Managing User Sessions

11. Chapter 8: Building RESTful Services

12. Part 4:Testing and Deployment

13. Chapter 9: Testing Our Application Endpoints and Components

14. Chapter 10: Deploying Our Application on AWS

15. Chapter 11: Configuring HTTPS with NGINX on AWS

16. Part 5:Making Our Projects Flexible

17. Chapter 12: Recreating Our Application in Rocket

18. Chapter 13: Best Practices for a Clean Web App Repository

19. Part 6:Exploring Protocol Programming and Async Concepts with Low-Level Network Applications

20. Chapter 14: Exploring the Tokio Framework

21. Chapter 15: Accepting TCP Traffic with Tokio

22. Chapter 16: Building Protocols on Top of TCP

23. Chapter 17: Implementing Actors and Async with the Hyper Framework

24. Chapter 18: Queuing Tasks with Redis

25. Index

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What are RESTful services?

REST stands for representational state transfer. It is an architectural style for our application programming interface (API) to read (GET), update (PUT), create (POST), and delete (DELETE) our users and to-do items. The goal of a RESTful approach is to increase speed/performance, reliability, and the ability to grow by reusing components that can be managed and updated without affecting the system.

You may have noticed that before Rust, slow, high-level languages seemed to be a wise choice for web development. This is because they are quicker and safer to write. This is due to the main bottleneck for the speed of processing data in web development being the network connection speed. The RESTful design aims to improve the speed by economizing the system, such as reducing API calls, as opposed to just focusing on algorithm speed. With that in mind, in this section, we will be covering the following RESTful concepts: