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

Build your own REST API server with the safety and performance of Rust using Rocket, SeaORM and JWT authentication.
What you'll learn
Create a Rust project
Create a REST API server using Rocket
Interacting with a database using SeaORM
Authenticating APIs using JWT
Writing database migrations using SeaORM CLI
Requirements
Basic programming experience
Basic experience with the Rust programming language
Description
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:
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.


Who this course is for:
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

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