📄️ Building Web APIs with Rust
In this module, you'll learn how to build web APIs in Rust using the Tokio async runtime and the Axum web framework. For you as a .NET developer, this is comparable to building web APIs with ASP.NET Core, but with Rust's performance, safety, and concurrency advantages.
📄️ Tokio
Tokio is a runtime for asynchronous programming in Rust. While .NET has built-in support for async/await, Rust's async functionality is provided by external crates. Tokio is the most popular async runtime and provides:
📄️ Axum Web Framework
Axum is a web framework built on top of Tokio. Created by the same team, it's designed to be:
📄️ Dependency Injection
Dependency Injection and Shared State
📄️ JSON Serialization in Web APIs
Axum integrates seamlessly with serde for JSON handling:
📄️ Challenge
Now it's time to put what you've learned into practice! In this module's challenge, you'll build a web API that allows users to register and retrieve user information: