Practical Rust Web Projects

Chapter 1, IntroductionThis chapter gives a short introduction to why Rust is a solid tool for building all kinds of application, and a brief overview of the format and organization of the book. Introduction Why Rust? Who should read this book? Chapters overviewChapter 2, Developing websitesThis chapter will cover how to use popular web frameworks to build static and dynamic websites. We'll also touch how to build RESTful API and common requirements in web backend programming: database, authentication and authorization What are we going to build? (A web version of the cat breed dictionary, first a static site and then server-side rendering ) Serving a static website Generate dynamic content with templates Fetching data from databases Authentication and authorization SummaryChapter 3, REST APIs What are we going to build? (A web version of the cat breed dictionary, with a single-page app + REST API) Defining the API with Open API specification Building a static frontend with AJAX calls Building a RESTful API Serialize/Deserialize JSON SummaryChapter 4, Chatting in realtime with WebSocketThis chapter will discuss how to build a WebSocket server that can power a real-time chat application in Rust What are we going to build? (A chat app for cats in people can send all kinds of cat noises) What is WebSocket Enabling two way communication Implementing the chat application SummaryChapter 5, Going serverlessThis chapter will demonstrate the benefit of serverless computing using AWS's experimental Rust support. What is serverless? What are we going to build? (Serverless version of Chapter 4) Pros and cons of serverless Setting up an AWS account Building a lambda function with Rust Exposing the API Gateway Cleaning it up SummaryChapter 6, High performance web frontend using WebAssemblyThis chapter will talk about how to compile Rust to WebAssembly and make it work together with JavaScript in the web frontend What is WebAssembly? (We'll implement the bottleneck of Book 1

Shing Lyu is a software engineer who is passionate about open source software. He's been working on Rust professionally at Mozilla, on the Firefox (Gecko) and Servo browser engine project. Currently, he is working at DAZN, a sports streaming platform as a backend developer, with a focus on AWS and serverless technology. Shing has worked for many world famous brands like Mozilla, Booking, and Intel. And, he is also active in the open source community. Being one of the founders of the Taiwan Rust community, he loves to share his enthusiasm for Rust with people.