Learning Rust with Actix, WASM & Giphy

Let's learn a little bit about Rust with a demo WebAssembly (WASM) application that allows a user to search for and save animated GIFs to a user profile using the GIPHY API.

The API is structured as a very simple JSON RPC API built using actix.rs. The client & server use the same exact data models (the same library code) for communicating over the network. All interaction is protected by JWT authN/authZ.

The client is a WASM application built using Rust & the Seed framework.

We are using Postgres for data storage & launchbadge/sqlx for the interface.

Check out the repository at github.com/thedodd/giphy-api.

Learning Objectives

First and foremost, let's learn something new about Rust!

1. Review some nice language features. Let's just start off with a quick sampling of various language features which I love! There are a few chapters dedicated to these features.
2. Build the app! We have a working application to study, so let's build it. This will give us some practice with the Rust toolchain.
3. Bonus: Let's dive into Ownership, Borrowing & Lifetimes, the "hard parts" of Rust.