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

Name: Creating an API server in Rust with Rocket, SeaORM and JWT
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Build your own REST API server with the safety and performance of Rust using Rocket, SeaORM and JWT authentication.

Last updated 5/2023

English

What you'll learn

8 sections • 43 lectures • 1h 50m total length

Introduction0:55
Creating a Rust project1:11
Create a rust rest api project with cargo by naming the package bookstore, initialize a git repo and gitignore, and verify rust 1.68.0 compatibility.
Understanding directory structure2:13
Rust Basics
Basic Requirements and Resources0:19
GitHub Repository0:12

Adding SeaORM2:13
Explore how Rocket handles routing, validation, processing, and response in a rest api, and connect with a MySQL database using an orm with migration support.
Designing the database structure1:02
Setting up migrations3:31
Writing database migrations11:39
Connecting to the database and running migrations7:57
Configure a database app.config from environment variables, create a connection pool, and run migrations with the migrator to ensure a successful Rocket database startup.
Generating SeaORM entities5:39
GitHub Repository0:10

Postman collection setup1:09
Set up the Postman collection for the Rust rest api, configure token-based authentication with a jwt token variable, apply inherited auth for all requests, and complete the basic setup.
JSON Responses2:48
Books: List2:30
Authors: List1:09
Implement an author list endpoint and the response representation of a single author in the author controller, build index function, test it, and confirm an empty list with total zero.
Creating Authors1:51
Creating Books1:40
Show one Book and one Author2:18
Updating Books and Authors3:52
Deleting Books and Authors1:39
List Books by an Author1:59
Implementing From trait2:03
GitHub Repository0:10

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:

We'll learn how to:

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:

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:

Rocket: a web framework for Rust that makes it simple to write fast, secure web applications without sacrificing flexibility, usability, or type safety.
SeaORM: is a relational ORM to help you build web services in Rust.
jsonwebtoken to create and decode JWTs in a strongly typed way.
serde_json for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures efficiently and generically.

Programmers curios about creating REST API servers and other projects using Rust
Beginner Rust developers looking to use the Rocket web framework
Beginner Rust developers looking to use SeaORM for database interactions
Beginner Rust developers curios about JWT authentication