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RESTful API with Rust: Build a Game Map Server
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RESTful API with Rust: Build a Game Map Server

Harrison Kong

Instructor: Harrison Kong

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Intermediate level

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1.5 hours
Learn at your own pace
Hands-on learning
Learn, practice, and apply job-ready skills with expert guidance
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1.5 hours
Learn at your own pace
Hands-on learning

What you'll learn

  • Implement RESTful HTTP API with Rust

  • Write and manage asynchronous multi-threaded processes with Rust

  • Scale Rust applications to adjust capacity

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July 2024

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About this Guided Project

Learn step-by-step

In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:

  1. Task 1: Introduction, Project Overview and Setup

  2. Task 2: Write Code to Respond to HTTP Requests

  3. Task 3: Send Back Responses and Handle Errors

  4. Optional Practice Task 1

  5. Task 4: Obtain Latest Map Data

  6. Task 5: Produce and Send Back Data in JSON

  7. Task 6: Make the Server Multi-Threaded

  8. Optional Practice Task 2

  9. Optional Cumulative Challenge

Recommended experience

Rust fundamentals including collections, variables, ownership, functions, macros, Cargo build system. REST API, JSON, TCP and HTTP optional.

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