Chapter 2: Building Our First Rocket Web Application

In this chapter, we're going to explore Rocket, a framework to create web applications using the Rust programming language. We will learn a little bit about Rocket before we create our first web application using the Rocket framework. After that, we will learn how to configure our Rocket web application. Finally, we will explore how to get help for this web framework at the end of this chapter.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Introducing Rocket – a web framework written in the Rust language
  • Creating our first Rocket web application
  • Configuring our Rocket web application
  • Getting help

Technical requirements

For this and subsequent chapters, you will need to ...

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