Rust Web Programming: A hands-on guide to developing fast and secure web apps with the Rust programming language

by Maxwell Flitton

Adopt the Rust programming language by learning how to build fully functional web applications and services and address challenges relating to safety and performance Are safety and high performance a big concern for you while developing web applications? While most programming languages have a safety or speed trade-off, Rust provides memory safety without using a garbage collector. This means that with its low memory footprint, you can build high-performance and secure web apps with relative ease. This book will take you through each stage of the web development process, showing you how to combine Rust and modern web development principles to build supercharged web apps. You'll start with an introduction to Rust and understand how to avoid common pitfalls when migrating from traditional dynamic programming languages. The book will show you how to structure Rust code for a project that spans multiple pages and modules. Next, you'll explore the Actix Web framework and get a basic web server up and running. As you advance, you'll learn how to process JSON requests and display data from the web app via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You'll also be able to persist data and create RESTful services in Rust. Later, you'll build an automated deployment process for the app on an AWS EC2 instance and Docker Hub. Finally, you'll play around with some popular web frameworks in Rust and compare them. By the end of this Rust book, you'll be able to confidently create scalable and fast web applications with Rust. This book on web programming with Rust is for web developers who have programmed in traditional languages such as Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and Java and are looking to develop high-performance web applications with Rust. Although no prior experience with Rust is necessary, a solid understanding of web development principles and basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are required if you want to get the most out of this book.

394 pages, Paperback

Published February 26, 2021

Reviews

[Sebastian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maybe the biggest problem in the book is the mismatched column name in the users table, but that must've been corrected by the editorial prior to the release. Besides that, it's a very good resource for newcomers to Rust with a Web Dev background.

The overview of 3 of the Rust Web frameworks is fundamental to understand how to structure a project no matter the framework, but having in mind scale and ease of use.

+1 for the questions at the end of every chapter.