Code Like a Pro in Rust

9 Building an HTTP REST API service

This chapter covers

• Deciding which web framework to use
• Designing an API
• Modeling our data
• Implementing the API
• Handling errors gracefully

In this chapter, we will put much of what we’ve learned in the previous chapters into practice by building a web service with async Rust. For completeness, we’ll write an API client in chapter 10.

I’ll focus mainly on the final code and spend less time discussing syntax, boilerplate, and alternative implementations. I’m confident you will get the most value from a complete working example. Much of the “how to” content on the internet (and elsewhere) tends to omit many of the full-picture implementation details and gloss over many complexities, so I will do my best to point ...