Template rendering in Rust
Blog post from LogRocket
The tutorial explores the traditional server-side rendering approach for web applications using Rust's robust template engine ecosystem, specifically focusing on the Askama library. Askama, inspired by the Jinja project, compiles templates into Rust code, ensuring compile-time checks and swift rendering, though it does not support dynamic runtime updates. To demonstrate this, a simple bookstore application with CRUD functionality is developed using the Warp web server and server-side templates. The application employs a shared Vec for data storage, protected by a read/write lock, and utilizes various Rust libraries for dependencies. Error handling is managed through custom templates, and the tutorial concludes by illustrating how to integrate these elements into a fully functional, server-rendered web application. The full code for the example is accessible on GitHub, highlighting Rust's capability for safe, performant template rendering.