An overview of the Rocket web framework for rust.

• Type Safe
• Boilerplate Free
• Easy to use
• Extensible

Including examples:

• Create a Hello World service
• Create a TODO service with a Postgres database using Diesel ORM.

Let me know if I made a mistake or if there is a better way of doing this. Thanks for watching!

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️

• 0:00 Rust Web development with Rocket
• 0:07 What is Rocket?
• 0:49 Rocket overview
• 3:32 A couple of things to consider before using Rocket
• 4:22 Building a Hello World service
• 8:37 Define custom configuration
• 9:29 Building a TODO service with a Postgres database
• 9:34 Setup a Database service using Docker and Docker Compose
• 10:12 Diesel to manage database migrations
• 12:19 Diesel and Serde dependencies
• 12:58 Rearrange the endpoints
• 13:20 Use the Schema file generated by Diesel
• 13:47 Define the models for the TODO service
• 15:04 Define handler to create new TODOs
• 15:52 How to get a DB connection with Rocket?
• 17:09 Create new TODO
• 18:00 Define handler to list all TODOs
• 18:54 Define the database configuration
• 19:20 Testing the TODO endpoints
• 20:27 Bonus: Define endpoint to mark a TODO as checked

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