Rust Crash Course 2025: Build Secure Web APIs with Actix: A Beginner's Guide to Ownership, Concurrency, and Production-Ready Web Development

By Weiming Chen

Rust is the language of 2025 for developers who demand speed, safety, and reliability. This crash course takes you from the basics of Rust's ownership and concurrency model to building secure, production-ready REST APIs with Actix. Along the way, you'll master error handling, performance optimization, deployment, and authentication - everything you need to create web applications that scale.

Inside, you'll discover how to set up your Rust environment, understand ownership and borrowing, write clean and testable code, build APIs with Actix Web and Serde, secure endpoints with HTTPS and JWTs, and deploy applications with confidence. The book culminates in a complete capstone project: a Todo API that ties together all the concepts in a practical, real-world example.

Whether you are new to programming or an experienced developer exploring Rust, this book gives you the practical skills to succeed. By the final page, you will not only understand why Rust is the language of 2025, but also how to use it to build web applications that are fast, reliable, and secure.

Your journey with Rust starts here - and continues with every project you build.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G5YTYDWW
• ISBN13: 9798278022282
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"