You're reading from Rust Web Development with Rocket A practical guide to starting your journey in Rust web development using the Rocket framework

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800561304

Length 420 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Tools

Rocket

Concepts

REST API

Author (1):

Karuna Murti

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

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

2. Chapter 1: Introducing the Rust Language FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Building Our First Rocket Web Application

4. Chapter 3: Rocket Requests and Responses

5. Chapter 4: Building, Igniting, and Launching Rocket

6. Chapter 5: Designing a User-Generated Application

7. Part 2: An In-Depth Look at Rocket Web Application Development

8. Chapter 6: Implementing User CRUD

9. Chapter 7: Handling Errors in Rust and Rocket

10. Chapter 8: Serving Static Assets and Templates

11. Chapter 9: Displaying Users' Post

12. Chapter 10: Uploading and Processing Posts

13. Chapter 11: Securing and Adding an API and JSON

14. Part 3: Finishing the Rust Web Application Development

15. Chapter 12: Testing Your Application

16. Chapter 13: Launching a Rocket Application

17. Chapter 14: Building a Full Stack Application

18. Chapter 15: Improving the Rocket Application

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting a WebAssembly build target

The Rust compiler can be set to compile to a different architecture. The architectures are also called targets. Targets can be identified by using target triple, a string that consists of three identifiers to be sent to the compiler. Examples of targets are x86_64-unknown-linux_gnu and x86_64-apple-darwin.

Targets can be categorized into three tiers, tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3:

Tier 1 means that the target is guaranteed to work properly.
Tier 2 means that the target is guaranteed to build but, sometimes, the automated test to build the binary for the targets may not pass. The host tools and full standard library for this tier are also supported.
Tier 3 means that the Rust code base supports some features of the targets. The build for those targets may or may not exist, and the tooling might not be complete.

Remember that WebAssembly is a binary format for a virtual machine. The Rust compiler has targets for the virtual...