REST API development with Rust

Have you ever wondered how a backend API works. Or maybe thought about what operations are going under-the-hood of a REST API. You are a beginner in REST API development world or just switched to Rust as a backend developer.

Then this course is absolutely for you. This course is totally beginner friendly, so we will cover the basic concepts of REST APIs and databases as well. Here you can learn the basics of REST API development and learning about all the general concepts and solutions that an application like this would need.

You will be implementing a simple TODO REST API that uses a database (MySQL) as a persistence layer. You will be learning a bit about Prometheus metrics and how to add them to your application. You will be learning about how to add / write OpenAPI specification to your API and add Swagger UI to let your API users interact easily with your API.

We will cover slightly using Docker to setup locally a database as well. By the end of the course, you will have a fully working REST API, that has a secure registration, login and authentication mechanism implemented with an exposed OpenAPI spec (not a full one, but there is an example for an endpoint). I suggest to have a minimal basic Rust development knowledge in order to get started on this course, but it's not mandatory, you can catch up with Rust in the meantime as well.