Company
Date Published
Author
Fikayo Adepoju
Word count
1443
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text provides a comprehensive guide on deploying a Rust application to a hosting platform using Heroku, while also setting up a continuous deployment pipeline through CircleCI. It underscores Rust's growing popularity, particularly with WebAssembly, for developing high-performance web applications. The tutorial walks through creating a basic Rust API using the Rocket framework, configuring it for Heroku deployment by setting up necessary files like Procfile and RustConfig, and automating the deployment process using CircleCI. The guide emphasizes the setup of environment variables to manage deployments and confirms successful deployment by accessing the app on Heroku. This tutorial highlights Rust's powerful capabilities in web app development and encourages users to explore continuous integration to enhance their development processes.