Creating an API server in Rust with Rocket, SeaORM and JWT

In this course, we'll create a REST API server in Rust to represent a bookstore. This bookstore would allow us to add books and authors.

Using this system, we'll be able to:

• Create, list, update and delete authors

• Create, list, update and delete books

• Associate and disassociate books and authors

• List all books by a particular author

We'll learn how to:

• Create a new Rust project using cargo

• Build and run our Rust project

• Add crates and enable crate features

We'll learn about basic API concepts such:

• Routing and HTTP methods

• Extracting data from HTTP requests

• Interacting with the database to query and insert data

• Creating user accounts

• Authentication using JWT

• Creating and using relationships between models to query and list associated data

  
  

Along with these concepts, we'll learn how to:

• Handle incoming (request) and outgoing (response) data in a type safe way

• Handle CORS

• Create and run database migrations

• Create one-to-many database relationships

• Create entities from database tables

We'll have a bonus lecture at the end to learn how to Dockerize our API server to deploy and run it anywhere.

We'll be using the following crates:

1. Rocket: a web framework for Rust that makes it simple to write fast, secure web applications without sacrificing flexibility, usability, or type safety.

2. SeaORM: is a relational ORM to help you build web services in Rust.

3. jsonwebtoken to create and decode JWTs in a strongly typed way.

4. serde_json for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures efficiently and generically.