Rust Programming Cookbook

Getting ready

Since we are working with Node.js, please install npm and the Node.js runtime, as explained on their official website: https://nodejs.org/en/download/. Once ready, you should be able to run these commands from a Terminal (PowerShell or bash):

$ node --versionv11.15.0$ npm --version6.7.0

The actual versions may be higher at the time of reading. The node dependency we are using also requires C/C++ tools, as well as having Python 2 installed. Follow the instructions for your OS on GitHub: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation. Then, let's set up a folder structure similar to the previous recipe:

1. Create a node-js-rust folder.
2. Create a sub-folder called node, change into it, and run npm init to generate package.json—basically, ...