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Rust Web Programming

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560819
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maxwell Flitton Maxwell Flitton
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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

Setting up our server

As we mentioned previously, the main difference is that the Rocket framework runs on the nightly build of Rust. Let's get started:

  1. First, we will have to switch to the nightly build by using the following command:
    rustup default nightly 
  2. Now, we can build our own Cargo project, and then define our dependency on the rocket frame with the following dependency in the Cargo.toml file:
    [dependencies]
    rocket = "0.4.6"
  3. Now that this has been defined, we can build our basic server with just one view in our src/main.rs file. First of all, we must import what we need with the following code:
    #![feature(proc_macro_hygiene, decl_macro)]
    #[macro_use] extern crate rocket;

    The top line of the previous code block may look new to you. This line enables us to use the unstable attributes that are available with the nightly version of Rust. The advantage of this is that we have access to the most cutting-edge features available. However, these features...

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