Fullstack Rust: The Complete Guide to Building Apps with the Rust Programming Language and Friends

Fullstack Rust: The Complete Guide to Building Apps with the Rust Programming Language and Friends

Learn to build performance-critical Rust apps

The Rust language is a way to write incredibly fast – and safe – code. It’s being used to build tools at Google, Facebook, Amazon, and many other companies where performance is critical.

While there are some good resources on how to learn the Rust programming language by itself, what these other books don’t teach is how to build applications with Rust.

Fullstack Rust solves that. In this book we show you how to use Rust to build incredibly fast web-servers, build command-line tools, and compile apps to run in the browser with Web Assembly (WASM).

Meet the Author: Andy Weiss, Software Engineer at Google

I started my career as a Data Scientist and Software Engineer at Facebook before becoming the first engineer at Flexport.

I began working with Rust as a hobby before putting it into production while at Rollbar. I’m now working on Fuchsia at Google. In my work, I try to mix the academic rigor from a PhD at Princeton with pragmatism learned from shipping products at companies big and small.

In Fullstack Rust I’ve put together a book that will show you how to use the Rust ecosystem to build fast, secure, apps and tools.

Learn the techniques and tools to build realistic Rust applications

Rust has features that make it a fantastic tool for a number of tasks. Some highlights include:

Performance

Strong, static, expressive type system

Fearless concurrency

Great error messages

Modern generics

Memory safety

Cross-platform

C interoperability

Compiles to WASM (WebAssembly)

Rust has a great set of documentation around the standard library. However, this book has a different focus – instead of trying to teach you just the Rust language, our goal is to build realistic applications and explore some of the techniques and tools available in Rust for accomplishing those tasks.

In the process of working through some common scenarios, you will also be able to learn Rust.