Building Rocket
summary
Rocket is a web framework for Rust that claims simplicity, reliability, and performance by using code generation; the talk dissects what code gets emitted (route info, a monomorphic request→outcome wrapper, routes vector), shows concrete examples (route attributes, dynamic path parsing that prevents directory traversal, request guards and ranking for auth), and previews features like typed URLs and database integration. It reports rapid adoption (thousands of users, a couple dozen companies, 1k+ GitHub stars at launch) and explains current nightly dependencies and the path to stable.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:22Rocket
- 7:42Hello World
- 12:09Dynamic Pads
- 15:17Request Guards
- 18:50Rocket Website
- 19:14Code Generation
- 24:28Internals
- 25:56Type
- 27:17Database Support
- 28:14Myths about Rocket
- 29:32Is Rocket unstable
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