Rust Cookbook

Description

The book is for developers, students, consultants, architects, and enthusiastic programmers across any vertical to learn about the state-of-the-art system programming language Rust and its unique features, which helps in delivering safe and high-performance production-level applications. The book comes with a lot of application specific recipes, which will help the developers get kick started with developing web applications and high-performance Rust modules into their existing applications. Preface What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Sections Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more… See also Conventions Reader feedback Customer support Downloading the example code Downloading the color images of this book Errata Piracy Questions Let us Make System Programming Great Again Introduction Setting up Rust in Linux and macOS Getting ready How to do it... Uninstalling Rust Rust's compiler version Advanced installation options Troubleshooting How it works... Setting up Rust in Windows Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Creating your first Rust program Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Defining a variable assignment Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Setting up Boolean and the character types Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Controlling decimal points, number formats, and named arguments Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Performing arithmetic operations Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Defining mutable variables Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Declaring and performing string operations Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Declaring arrays and using slices in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Declaring vectors in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Declaring tuples in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Performing calculations on two numbers Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Advanced Programming with Rust Introduction Defining an expression Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Defining constants Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Performing variable bindings Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Performing type casting in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Decision-making with Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Looping operations in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Defining the enum type Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Defining closures Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Performing pointer operations in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Defining your first user-defined data type Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Adding functionality to the user-defined data type Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Similar functionality for different data type Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Deep Diving into Cargo Introduction Creating a new project using Cargo Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Downloading an external crate from crates.io Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Working on existing Cargo projects Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Running tests with Cargo Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Configuration management of the project Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Building the project on the Travis CI Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Uploading to crates.io Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Creating Crates and Modules Introduction Defining a module in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Building a nested module Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Creating a module with struct Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Controlling modules Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Accessing modules Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Creating a file hierarchy Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Building libraries in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Calling external crates Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Deep Dive into Parallelism Introduction Creating a thread in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Spawning multiple threads Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Holding threads in a vector Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Sharing data between threads using channels Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing safe mutable access Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Creating child processes Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Waiting for a child process Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Making sequential code parallel Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Efficient Error Handling Introduction Implementing panic Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing Option Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Creating map combinator Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Creating and_then combinator Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Creating map for the Result type Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing aliases Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Handling multiple errors Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing early returns Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing the try! macro Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Defining your own error types Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing the boxing of errors Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Hacking Macros Introduction Building macros in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing matching in macros Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Playing with common Rust macros Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing designators Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Overloading macros Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing repeat Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing DRY Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Integrating Rust with Other Languages Introduction Calling C operations from Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Calling Rust commands from C Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Calling Rust operations from Node.js apps Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Calling Rust operations from Python Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Writing a Python module in Rust Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Web Development with Rust Introduction Setting up a web server Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Creating endpoints Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Handling JSONRequests Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Building custom error handlers Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Hosting templates Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Advanced Web Development in Rust Introduction Setting up the API Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Saving user data in MongoDB Getting ready How to do it... Fetching user data Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Deleting user data Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Advanced Rust Tools and Libraries Introduction Setting up rustup Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Setting up rustfmt Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Setting up rust-clippy Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Setting up and testing with Servo Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Generating random numbers Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Writing lines to a file Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Parsing unstructured JSON Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Parsing URL from a string Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Decompressing a tarball Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Compressing a directory to a tarball Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Finding file extensions recursively Getting ready How to do it... How it works...