Building a REST API in Rust (Part 1)

What Will I Learn?

• You will learn how to use the Diesel ORM to build a schema
• You will learn a way of connecting a Rust project to an SQL Database
• You will learn how to properly build data models which implement code generation macros that create SQL

Requirements

• A moderate understanding of the Rust programming language
• A little knowledge of SQL and SQL databases
• A fair understanding of command lines/terminals and command line interfaces
• An understanding of environment variables

Difficulty

• Intermediate

Description

In this video, we start building a REST API in the Rust Programming language. We use the Diesel library to build our database. We also explore different methods of creating and migrating our data models through the use of the Diesel CLI and the Diesel macro system. Finally, we use the Diesel library to help build out declarative functions that allow us to insert, update, delete and view the data from our database. These functions will eventually help us give this type of functionality to our API endpoint.

The source code for this project can be found here

Video Tutorial

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