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

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