realworld-axum-sqlx VS zero-to-production

This was one of the objectives when we created https://github.com/launchbadge/realworld-axum-sqlx

Clap can actually load values from the environment now: https://github.com/launchbadge/realworld-axum-sqlx/blob/main/src/config.rs

I'm working on a PoC to rewrite the realworld app from launchbadge to use entrait: https://github.com/audunhalland/rust-realworld-ioc/ (work in progress), maybe it can be used as inspiration.

While there already exists a fantastic implementation of the spec written by the sqlx authors, I wanted to use this as a Rust playground for myself and others to poke around the ecosystem. I'm sure there's quite a bit of room for improvement, and I'm looking forward to opening this up for those in a similar boat and learning Rust.

I'm following some examples for creating a server with Axum like realworld-axum-sqlx and customize-extractor-error. The second one shows how to get request errors related to json and I'd like to know if there's anyway to make the where clause more error-proof.

I've just migrated from actix-web to axum, so it's the backend that I'm interested in people's thoughs on. I've taken a fair amount of design inspiration from the realworld-axum-sqlx project.

Here is a realworld-spec in Axum: https://github.com/launchbadge/realworld-axum-sqlx

https://github.com/launchbadge/realworld-axum-sqlx is Axum based implementation of the Realworld specification

Here's an example codebase using these features: https://github.com/launchbadge/realworld-axum-sqlx/blob/main/src/http/articles/listing.rs

Realworld Spec with Axum

Zero to Production in Rust - Book by Luca Palmieri: An in-depth book that guides readers through building a fully functional backend application in Rust, from zero to production.

And the book "Zero To Production In Rust - An introduction to backend development", I didn’t read it yet but seems pretty good

It’s a lot simpler if you add serde to the mix (derive Deserialize for your settings types). Have a look at the example from the Zero to Production book: https://github.com/LukeMathWalker/zero-to-production/blob/main/src/configuration.rs

You probably want to check out the Zero to Production book which is about using Rust for back-end development.

https://www.zero2prod.com/

If your'e more into a tutorial with a book https://www.zero2prod.com/ is really good. You gonna build a newsletter service. With all the good stuff in backend development.

If you want to build a backend in Rust, Axum (which uses hyper underneath) is pretty recommended these days, as it's all in the tokio ecosystem. Actix Web is good too, but it has its own ecosystem of libraries. I read the book Zero To Production in Rust [0] which was a great overview on not just Rust but scalable backend architectures as a whole.

Interestingly, Cloudflare wanted to use hyper but found that it was too correct, so they had to build their own [1].

[0] https://www.zero2prod.com

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t...

In addition to the book, which has already been recommended. If you’re specifically into backend you should try Zero to Production. Luca really knows what he’s talking about, and it’s an excellent overview of backend rust and the development process in general.

I highly recommend the book Zero to Production in Rust which also has an associated GitHub. I like the style of the writing and the explanations used within the book. Even though it uses Rust, the concepts seem to work in any language - I have applied the concepts to both Go and Python in the past.

I would recommend you a book - "Zero to Production in Rust" https://www.zero2prod.com/

if you want to learn more about web backend development there is nothing better then https://www.zero2prod.com/