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tide

Fast and friendly HTTP server framework for async Rust

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Fast and friendly HTTP server framework for async Rust

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The DB space for Rust is a bit young, though there are several good projects like sqlx making it much more pleasant. Rust shares many of the benefits of Go: - statically linked…

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boredumb·Apr 11, 2023
https://tourofrust.com/ is fun. Learning rust has a weird initial learning curve dealing with the aggressive analyzer/compiler and how you have to approach your variables, but after that initial hump it is one of the coziest languages I've used. Having what was initially a bit of a nag, is now a godsend when i'm getting red-squiggles in vscode for a typo in my SQL string for a misnamed column, or a field in my template was removed and so my struct shows how it's now unused. Rust allows me to mainly only run the application to confirm things work from a business perspective. For people starting out building stuff in rust - understand that there is a distinction of async code and libraries and can lead to confusing compiler errors if you don't realize there is a distinction. It's simple in hindsight but did cause me to waste hours barking u
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p the wrong trees at first. Other wise just learn about `match` and Result/Option types asap, they're fundamental. https://github.com/http-rs/tide tide is great to create an http server / routes https://github.com/djc/askama I use this to template out HTML and it checks all my boxes, dynamic data, passing in functions, control flow. https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx sql interface for a variety of backend, async safe. https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest http client to make requests Rust is amazing, don't let the initial few speed bumps discourage you - building real things with rust is no more challenging today than any other modern language stack.
In Becoming Rustacean: Resources to Learn Rust Programming
xet7·Aug 20, 2022
But what Rust web framework would not have showstopper bugs like this? a) Actix Web https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/2810 https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/2782 https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/2774 b) Rocket https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/1405 c) Warp https://github.com/seanmonstar/warp/issues/937 https://github.com/seanmonstar/warp/issues/798 d) Tide https://github.com/http-rs/tide/issues/853
In Ask HN: Anyone using Rust for server side application development?
jeroenhd·Apr 16, 2022
> Yes! And it's freaking fast! Going by these benchmarks (click around to find your own use case) Rust is definitely fast, but not (much) faster than many other languages, including Javascript. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=... When it comes to JSON serializers, there is a Java framework that is faster than Rust, which is interesting to say the least. When you start comparing actual fully-features frameworks, many Rust libraries even lose their advantage! There are definite benefits to Rust web frameworks (despite the minimal speed diff, Rocket or similar can have less than half the RAM requirements that other languages run into!) but just because Rust compiles to machine code doesn't mean it'll revolutionize your web application. > These provide everything you’d expect from a web framework, from routing and
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middleware, to templating, and JSON/form handling. One problem I've run into is that I wanted to give Rust a try for a basic CRUD application but the features just weren't built in or available in packages. Some frameworks were missing CSRF, others were missing multipart/form uploads, and so on. Online discussions often end up concluding that "it's easy to write the middleware yourself, see this hacky POC", but this type of code is easy to mess up and easy to break with API upgrades. Tide and Warp seem to have matured quite well, so I guess I'll have to give them a go at some point, but I'm a little sceptical. The status of this issue (https://github.com/http-rs/tide/issues/852) is a little disheartening...
In Is Rust Web Yet?
jkelleyrtp·Jun 5, 2021Recommendation phrase
The DB space for Rust is a bit young, though there are several good projects like sqlx making it much more pleasant. Rust shares many of the benefits of Go: - statically linked binaries for ease of deployment - good concurrency - builtin testing framework But it's a much sharper tool than Go: - Really great error handling with Result/Option and the ? marker - Like, really really good error handling, esp compared to Go - Very pleasant logging and tracing - Serde is fantastic at automatically serializing/deserializing datastructures - Generics make Map/Reduce/Filter really easy and readable - Really good project management through modules/Cargo.toml - Crates.io is like NPM - really discoverable and easy to upload (with its goods and bads) - FFI with Swift, C, C++, Node, etc to share code everywhere - Builtin documentation - Builtin benchmar
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king - Powerful hygienic and non-hygienic macros There's a lot more. I would say people choose Rust over other web frameworks not because of the language, but the emphasis on great tooling. Being able to test, document, benchmark, deploy, package, with a language that feels like a child between Go, JavaScript, and C++ is very attractive. Plus, it's fast - like really fast - and it's really obvious where optimizations can be made when the time comes. I've worked a decent amount with Go, but I'm also frustrated with the size of projects balloon. When I compare my Rust and Go code, the Rust code ends up being much smaller (LoC) and much more dense/terse. I've been working with it for a few years now, and I'm 100% willing to trade some complexity when doing Advanced Stuff (tm) for the 1st-class tooling. I hate having to decide which testing/documentation/building/benchmark/etc framework to use in other languages. I just want to build, not futz around with Jest/Babel/Webpack/Poetry/PyEnv/Opam/CMAKE etc. If you're looking into using Rust for web, I recommend https://github.com/http-rs/tide - it's the most pleasant web framework I've ever used.
In Zero to Production in Rust
olalonde·Dec 23, 2020
When learning Rust a few months ago, I built a small client library for a REST API using reqwest (which uses Tokio). I then started writing a web app using Tide (https://github.com/http-rs/tide). I eventually realized that it would be difficult to use the library I had built earlier since Tide uses the async-std runtime rather than Tokio. That was very disappointing. Is there any plan to make it easier to write "runtime agnostic" libraries in the future?
In Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust

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