Web development in Rust using Rocket

Announcement

In this workshop we will create a web site using the Rocket web framework. We don’t assume any background in web development. We’ll use minimal HTML, we’ll try to focus on getting started with the Rocket framework

The workshop includes presentations and hands-on work.

The workshop will be via Zoom (link will be announced close to the event) Language: English. Workshop lead: Gabor Szabo Requirements: Basic familiarity with writing Rust will be enough. Length: up to 2 hours.

Cost: This workshop is free of charge thanks to the people who support me via one of the following systems: Github sponsor, Patreon, or directly via PayPal.

Why Rocket?

• Rocket

Articles about Rocket

• Rocket - web development with Rust

Rocket skeleton

There is

• Cargo generate
• Cargo generate

But I did not know about it so I created

• Rocket Starter

cargo install rocket-starter

cargo install cargo-watch
cargo watch -x run

• rocket_dyn_templates

• tera

• Rocket Discussion forum

In this meeting we covered

• GET and a tiny bit POST requests.
• Request routing.
• Templates - Tera
• 404 catcher.
• A little bit getting parameters via GET and POST requests.
• Testing the simple examples.
• We used the rocket-starter with the following flags: --simple, --tera1, --tera2 --tera-module.
• We mentioned that it is using Tokio and that we can use async, but we have not tried it.