RESTful Rust

RESTful Rust is straightforward REST API example written in Rust. It shows how to implement and test GET, POST, PUT and DELETE methods with amazing Warp web server framework.

Getting started

To run the project locally:

1. install rustup by following the instructions
2. add clippy (collection of lints) and rustfmt (code formatter) by running rustup component add clippy and rustup component add rustfmt accordingly
3. clone this repository git clone https://github.com/blurbyte/restful-rust.git
4. to start an API enter project's directory and run cargo run
5. run tests with cargo test
6. lint code with cargo clippy and format it with cargo fmt
7. run cargo build --release command to generate single optimized binary

Dependencies overview

Dependency	Description
warp	Composable web server framework with powerful filters system
serde	Library for serializing and deserializing data structures
chrono	Date and time utilities
log + pretty_env_logger	Simple logger (by default enabled in debug mode)

Available endpoints

List of API routes with associated REST verbs:

• http://localhost:8080/games - GET, POST
• http://localhost:8080/games/:id - PUT, DELETE

Testing RESTful API

Nowadays there are many great tools which make testing API easy, such as Postman or Insomnia.

Just enter one of the available endpoints with appropriate HTTP method selected:

And watch a console / terminal for detailed logs: