zero-to-production VS book

I'd highly recommend reading some articles by Luca Palmieri[1], or even buying his book[2]. Although I didn't learn this stack by working through his book, whenever I had questions through the years, my searches usually led me to his articles which are often excerpts from the larger book.

The high level of API stability and lack of churn in the Actix ecosystem makes the book a particularly good investment for someone looking to settle on this stack in my opinion. In keeping with the topic of this submission, I doubt I'd be comfortable spending money on a similar book about building web apps with React.

[1]: https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2020-08-09-zero-to-productio...

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

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.

In this article, I’ve hopefully given you some foundational breadcrumbs in the Rust language. Take these and go off to do your reading, research, and practice. As always, I recommend The Rust Programming Language for further reading and detail.

So... why should I buy a $35 introductory programming book in 2024?

Here are some free introductory Rust books:

  - The Rust Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

The Rust Programming Language

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https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ is great. I’d been writing Rust for months before I started reading it and still began learning new things from the start. Oh, that’s why it does this!

I was using the Rust Book, (I still am), but in order to avoid being caught in tutorial hell, I asked Chat-GPT to suggest projects I can build in order of difficulty to solidify the concepts as I go along. It came back with the following suggestions:

Rust Official Docs

Welcome to Building a Single-Threaded Web Server. This lab is a part of the Rust Book. You can practice your Rust skills in LabEx.

The link below (https://github.com/rust-lang/book/tree/main/tools) could imply the book was written as Word .docx with named styles, which enabled transformation into markdown for the mdBook?

agreed, and the book is pretty upfront about it being for more intermediate readers. i felt like i hit the sweet spot for this book after having gone through the rust programming language [0], zero to production in rust [1], and having worked on a few larger rust projects. all three books are really good in their own way.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/