Rust Web Development

Create bulletproof, high-performance web apps and servers with Rust.

In Rust Web Development you will

Handling the borrow checker in an asynchronous environment

Learning the ingredients of an asynchronous Rust stack

Creating web APIs and using JSON in Rust

Graceful error handling

Testing, tracing, logging, and debugging

Deploying Rust applications

Efficient database access

Rust Web Development is a pragmatic, hands-on guide to creating server-based web applications with Rust. If you’ve designed web servers using Java, NodeJS, or PHP, you’ll instantly fall in love with the performance and development experience Rust delivers. Hit the ground running! Author Bastian Gruber’s sage advice makes it easy to start tackling complex problems with Rust. You’ll learn how to work efficiently using pure Rust, along with important Rust libraries such as tokio for async runtimes, warp for web servers and APIs, and reqwest to run external HTTP requests.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

If you’re sick of cookie-cutter web development tools that are slow, resource hungry, and unstable, Rust is the solution. Rust services deliver rock-solid safety guarantees, an amazing developer experience, and even a compiler that automatically prevents common mistakes!

About the book

Rust Web Development , teaches you to build server-side web apps using Rust, along with important Rust libraries like tokio for async runtimes, warp for web servers and APIs, and reqwest to run external HTTP requests. The book is packed full of examples, code samples, and pro tips for setting up your projects and organizing your code. As you go, you’ll build a complete Q&A web service and iterate on your code chapter-by-chapter, just like a real development project.

What's inside

Handle the borrow checker in an asynchronous environment

Build web APIs and handle JSON

Compose a tech stack for asynchronous Rust development

Handle errors gracefully

Test, trace, log, and debug

Deploy Rust applications to multiple environments

About the reader

This book is for web developers familiar with Java, Node, or Go, and the absolute basics of Rust.

About the author

Bastian Gruber was part of the official Rust Async Working Group, and founded the Rust and Tell Berlin MeetUp group.

Table of Contents

PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO RUST

1 Why Rust?

2 Laying the foundation

PART 2 GETTING STARTED

3 Create your first route handler

4 Implement a RESTful API

5 Clean up your codebase

6 Logging, tracing, and debugging

7 Add a database to your application

8 Integrate third-party APIs

PART 3 BRING IT INTO PRODUCTION

9 Add authentication and authorization

10 Deploy your application

11 Testing your Rust application