Rust Web Development with Rocket

Chapter 4: Building, Igniting, and Launching Rocket

Many web applications require some kind of object management that can be reused again and again, be it a connection pool for a database server, a connection to a memory store, an HTTP client to third-party servers, or any other object. Another common feature in a web application is middleware.

In this chapter, we will discuss two Rocket features (state and fairings), which act as the reusable object management and middleware parts of Rocket. We will also learn how to create and use connections to database servers, which is very important in almost all web applications.

After completing this chapter, we expect you to be able to use and implement the reusable object management and middleware ...