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

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing WebAssembly

In the past, almost all applications in the web browser were made using the JavaScript language. There were also attempts to use different languages in the web browser, such as Java Applet, Adobe Flash, and Silverlight. But, all those different attempts were not web standards, and, therefore, the adoption of those attempts was not as universal as JavaScript.

However, there is a way to use other programming languages in the web browser: by using WebAssembly. WebAssembly is both a binary executable format and its corresponding text format for a stack-based virtual machine. Web browsers that support WebAssembly can execute the binary executable format. Any programming language that can be compiled into WebAssembly can be executed by web browsers.

In 2015, WebAssembly was announced and was first released in March 2017. All major web browser vendors finished the release of browsers with minimum support for WebAssembly in September 2017, and then World Wide...

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