Building a REST API in Rust (Part 2)

What Will I Learn?

• You will learn how to decouple your database from your request/response cycle in a Rust web application
• You will learn how to setup a basic Rust rocket application
• You will learn how to dynamically serve static HTML and other files from a basic Rust rocket app

Requirements

• A moderate understanding of the Rust programming language
• A basic understanding of micro service architecture.
• A basic understanding of the HTTP protocol

Difficulty

• Intermediate

Description

In this tutorial, we continue building our Rust API project. We first add the rest of our dependencies to our application and then configure our R2D2 database connection pool. We then build out parts of our application by adding functionality that allows us to serve static files in both a static and dynamic way. We look at some of the various features of the Rust nightly channel and the Rocket Framework which includes custom attributes, inline functions and declarative macros. We finish up by looking at how we can tie all of this together into a coherent server.

The source code for this project can be found here

Video Tutorial

Curriculum

• Building a REST API in Rust (Part 1)

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