Zero To Production In Rust
Zero To Production is the ideal starting point for your journey as a Rust backend developer. You will learn by doing: you will build a fully functional email newsletter API, starting from scratch. You'll learn how to: Navigate and leverage Rust's crates ecosystem Structure your application to make it modular and extensible Write tests, from single units to full-blown integration tests Enforce your domain invariants using Rust's type system Authenticate and authorize users of your API Implement a robust error handling strategy Observe the state of your application using structured logs Set up an extensive continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline for your Rust projects
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- Fragile boilerplate.
I love "Zero to Production in Rust", but that's a pretty long book that recreates a fraction of what comes out of the box with Django. Also, when things come with Django, there's no need to maintain or worry about subtle yet crucial bugs.
- I'd highly recommend reading some articles by Luca Palmieri[1], or even buying his book[2]. Although I didn't learn this stack by working through his book, whenever I had questions through the years, my searches usually led me to his articles which are often excerpts from the larger book.
The high level of API stability and lack of churn in the Actix ecosystem makes the book a particularly good investment for someone looking to settle on this stack in my opinion. In keeping with the topic of this submission, I doubt I'd be comfortable spending money on a similar book about building web apps with React.
[1]: https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2020-08-09-zero-to-productio...
- It really doesn't, actix is already there. Recently built my startup code over the past couple years with Actix and it had literally everything we needed easily. We just need more documentation and reference code bases demonstrating how to do these things. Rust devs tend to be fairly advanced and seemingly don't write enough docs or shares.
>Routing/handlers
Actix has it.
>Templates
Minijinja or liquid-rust[1]
>Static file serving
actix-files[2]
>Logins
Actix with oidccore is fantastic and easy[3]
>Permissions
Actix FromRequest is literally perfect. We have perm levels (admin, owner) and per-route perms for more fine-grained control.[4]
> Database interface
Diesel with diesel_async for connection pooling has been flawless at scale.
> Admin tooling
We didn't do this, but it would be simple with a bin/load-data.rs file that runs via a docker start command or tmuxp pane.
> Hot reloading
Cargo watch is getting deprecated, but was great. Bacon and and Watchexec are fully qualified successors. CSS watch systems work with the templates already same way as they do for SPAs.
> Background tasks
Make a bin/worker.ts file which defines a single binary and then use redis or another queing sytem to communicate between the worker and core server. We loaded all of HN (40M docs) into a search index with this approach and it was easy.
> Monitoring/observability
There's a decent story here with structured logging. Zero to production in Rust has a good chapter on it (2020) [5]. Lots of progress has been made since and exposing prom metrics endpoint is straightforward [6]. Sentry support is also decent and they sponsor actix.
> Caching
Imo, the story with Redis + actix is fine. We do this with our auth middleware to reduce latency on that operation since it happens with every route and I think it's smooth with FromRequest.
> Emails and other notifications
What's wrong with SMTP? Plus, Keycloak will handle your password reset infra out of the box. SDKs here could be better, but the APIs are fine and not too bad to do with Reqwest yourself.
> Deployment tooling + CSS/JS bundling
Imo, both of these things are the same as with other languages. Rust could use more documentation, but I don't think there's anything making it particularly hard to use.
[1]: https://github.com/devflowinc/hn-search-RAG/blob/main/actix-...
[2]: https://github.com/devflowinc/hn-search-RAG/blob/main/actix-...
[3]: https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve/blob/main/server/src/ha...
[4]: https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve/blob/main/server/src/ha...
[5]: https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2020-09-27-zero-to-productio...
[6]: https://romankudryashov.com/blog/2021/11/monitoring-rust-web...
- Congrats on the release, it like every bit of it !
I hope Gleam will find more sponsors for Louis and the core contributors, especially one from a stable company !
On this side, have you thought about publishing paid educational content to both pay the bill and still contribute to Gleam’s growth ? I don’t know for others but I would love to pay for something like Luca Palmieri’s book Zero To Production in Rust but in Gleam !
- This book is good but I think it’s too hard for beginners. I would recommend to read ‘zero to production in Rust’ by Luca Palmieri first especially if you like more learning by doing approach
- agreed, and the book is pretty upfront about it being for more intermediate readers. i felt like i hit the sweet spot for this book after having gone through the rust programming language [0], zero to production in rust [1], and having worked on a few larger rust projects. all three books are really good in their own way.
[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ [1] https://www.zero2prod.com/
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