futures-example-2019

It's not immediately obvious what crates one should use trying to get .await working with Rust in May, 2019.

To help that cause, I've created this crate. It does a single http request to https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1 using hyper, and prints the result. This should work as a good starter for projects using tokio or hyper with async/await syntax.

This uses:

• tokio as an event loop
• hyper for http calls, as an example
• futures-0.3 (futures-preview) with "compat" feature for future-related things
• the new fut.await syntax

The crate is fairly simple, so it should be easy to explore.

Thanks to:

• this blog post, detailing futures 0.3's compatibility API
• this users.rust-lang.org post, describing using tokio with futures-0.3
• the Rust "async book"