Rocket is a web framework for Rust that makes it simple to write fast, secure web applications without sacrificing flexibility, usability, or type safety.
Rocket’s main task is to route incoming requests to the appropriate request handler using your application’s declared routes.
This is free and open source software.
Every request received by a Rocket web application follows a simple 3-step process from request to response.
- Rocket validates a matching request by ensuring that all of the types in a given handler can be derived from the incoming request. If the types cannot be derived, the request is forwarded to the next matching route until a route’s types validate or there are no more routes to try. If all routes fail, a customizable 404 error is returned.
- the request is processed by an arbitrary handler. This is where most of the business logic in an application resides, and the part of your applications you’ll likely spend the most time writing.
- If the function above is used as a handler, for instance, then the type
Tmust implementResponder. Rocket provides many useful responder types out of the box.
Website: rocket.rs
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Sergio Benitez
License: Apache License Version 2.0 or MIT License
Rocket is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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