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Rust Web Development

With warp, tokio, and reqwest
by Bastian Gruber
The cover of Rust Web Development
4.81/5 on Goodreads
ISBN 9781617299001
Published in 2022
400 pages

Description

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

In Rust Web Development you will learn:

  • 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.