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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Up until this chapter, we have been writing code in a sequential manner. This is good enough for standard scripts. However, in web development, asynchronous programming is important, as there are multiple requests to servers, and API calls introduce idle time. In some other languages, such as Python, we can build web servers without touching any asynchronous concepts. While asynchronous concepts are utilized in these web frameworks, the implementation is defined under the hood. This is also true for the Rust framework Rocket. However, as we have seen, it is directly implemented in Actix Web.

When it comes to utilizing asynchronous code, there are two main concepts we must understand:

Processes: A process is a program that is being executed. It has its own memory stack, registers for variables, and code.
Threads: A thread is a lightweight process that is managed independently by a scheduler. However, it does share data, code,...