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

Chapter 11: Securing and Adding an API and JSON

Two of the most important aspects of a web application are authentication and authorization. In this chapter, we are going to learn how to implement simple authentication and authorization systems. After we have created these systems, we are going to learn how to create a simple Application Programming Interface (API) and how to protect the API endpoint using a JSON Web Token (JWT).

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to create an authentication system, with functionality such as logging in and logging out and setting access rights for logged-in users. You will also be able to create an API server and know how to secure the API endpoints.

In this chapter, we are going to cover these main topics: