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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