You're reading from Rust Web Programming A hands-on guide to developing fast and secure web apps with the Rust programming language

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800560819

Length 394 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Tools

JavaScriptMVC

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Maxwell Flitton

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1:Setting Up the Web App Structure

2. Chapter 1: Quick Introduction to Rust FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Designing Your Web Application in Rust

4. Section 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. Section 3:Data Persistence

9. Chapter 6: Data Persistence with PostgreSQL

10. Chapter 7: Managing User Sessions

11. Chapter 8: Building RESTful Services

12. Section 4:Testing and Deployment

13. Chapter 9: Testing Our Application Endpoints and Components

14. Chapter 10: Deploying Our Application on AWS

15. Chapter 11: Understanding Rocket Web Framework

16. Assessments

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A: Understanding the Warp Framework

What are RESTful services?

REST stands for representational state transfer. It is an architectural style for our application programming interface (API) in order 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 as a whole.

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 speed in web development being network connection speed. The RESTful design aims to improve the speed by economizing the system as a whole, 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: