There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.
All tagged the secrets of rust tools
That mockingbird won't sing: a mock API server in Rust
Faking it till you make it isn’t always the best strategy in life, but it can be a useful one in software engineering. Here’s an easy way to create a local HTTP server for testing Rust API clients.
A hard rain's a-gonna fall: parsing JSON in Rust
Everybody’s talking JSON at me, but I don’t hear a word they’re saying. Instead, I need to deserialize that data into a Rust value I can use. Luckily, there’s a crate for that.
Elephants for breakfast: testing the untestable in Rust
How do you test functions that can’t be tested? That’s easy: you don’t! Instead, you use the magic function technique to break down the elephants—excuse me, functions—into smaller bites that you can test.
Here comes the sun: building a weather client in Rust
Whither the weather? In another extract from the not-yet-award-winning book The Secrets of Rust: Tools, let’s write a simple API client that can tell us if it’s sweater or swimsuit season.
For your eyes only: user-friendly errors in Rust
Durable software not only handles errors, it presents them to users in a helpful and meaningful way. Let’s put the finishing touches to our line-counting program by completing the user interface.
Things fall apart: handling errors in Rust programs
The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but handles them sensibly. Let’s see how, by returning to our line-counter project.
Writing terrible code in Rust… makes great tests
The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going somewhere with this.
The magic function: designing clean APIs in Rust
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is easy: you use them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic function” approach.
Rust and Go vs everything else
Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.
Rust’s Result and Option types make elegant APIs
The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our Rust programs? Let’s introduce two of every Rust programmer’s favourite types: Option and Result.