Carlo Milanesi - Creative Projects for Rust Programmers: Build exciting projects on domains such as web apps, WebAssembly, games, and parsing

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Carlo Milanesi has a computer science degree from the State University of Milan, and lives in Bergamo, Italy. He is a software engineer with decades of experience in teaching and developing software for desktop and the web on Windows or Linux, using C, C++, Smalltalk, Delphi, Visual Basic, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Rust.

He loves writing tests and documentation and has experience in the domains of banking, portfolio management, construction engineering, CAD systems for milling machines, human-machine interface systems for machine tools, and websites and web applications for enterprises and for public administration management. He has written a book on Rust entitled, Beginning Rust: From Novice to Professional.

Daniel Durante has been both an author and a technical reviewer for Packt publishing. He is a consultant and strategist for Fortune 100 companies and a full stack developer from the age of 12. His code exists in infrastructures such as Hubcash, Stripe, and Walmart.

He has worked on text-based browser games that have reached over 1,000,000 active players. He has created bin-packing software for CNC machines, embedded programming with cortex-m and PIC circuits, high-frequency trading applications. He has also helped and contributed to maintain one of the oldest ORMs of Node.js (SequelizeJS).

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This book is a presentation of the most interesting and useful libraries and frameworks that are freely available for Rust programmers to use in building interesting and useful projects, such as frontend and backend web applications, games, interpreters, compilers, computer emulators, and Linux-loadable modules.

This book is for developers who have already learned the Rust programming language and are eager to put it to work to build useful software, whether for businesses or for a hobby project. The book addresses diverse needs, such as building a web application, a computer game, an interpreter, a compiler, an emulator, or a device driver.

Some knowledge of SQL is required to understand the chapter on databases, and knowledge of the C programming language and Linux tools is required to understand the chapter on Linux modules.

, Rust 2018 Productivity, describes recent innovations in the Rust language and its ecosystem of tools and libraries. In particular, it shows you how to use some utility libraries that are in widespread usage.

, Storing and Retrieving Data , describes how to read and write some of the most popular text file formats in the Rust world: TOML, JSON, and XML. It also describes how to access some of the most popular database engines in the Rust world, such as SQLite, PostgreSQL, and Redis.

, Creating a REST Web Service , describes how to use the Actix framework to develop a REST service that can be used as a backend for any kind of client application, particularly web applications.

, Creating a Full Server-Side Web App , describes how to use the Tera template engine to replace placeholders in a text file, and how to use the Actix framework to create a full server-side web application.