Building a REST API in Rust (Part 1) by tensor

utopian-io · @tensor · Jan 17 '18 (edited)

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Building a REST API in Rust (Part 1)

#### What Will I Learn?

- You will learn how to use the Diesel ORM to build a schema
- You will learn a way of connecting a Rust project to an SQL Database
- You will learn how to properly build data models which implement code generation macros that create SQL

#### Requirements

- A moderate understanding of the Rust programming language 
- A little knowledge of SQL and SQL databases
- A fair understanding of command lines/terminals and command line interfaces
- An understanding of environment variables

#### Difficulty

- Intermediate


#### Description
In this video, we start building a **REST API** in the **Rust Programming language**.  We use the **Diesel library** to build our database. We also explore different methods of *creating and migrating* our data models through the use of the **Diesel CLI** and the **Diesel macro system**.  Finally, we use the **Diesel library** to help build out **declarative functions** that allow us to *insert, update, delete and view* the data from our database.  These functions will eventually help us give this type of functionality to our API endpoint.    

The source code for this project can be found [here](https://github.com/tensor-programming/rust_api_part_1)

#### Video Tutorial
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VMZdGX9wC4g" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>


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