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Re: Tell HN: My “Rust Web Development” book is released

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I am new to Rust. How is the book (or Rust?) agnostic to any particular framework? Do frameworks share lots of commonality, and/or are they just minimal in nature? Also, even if the book is agnostic to frameworks, will it still help me learn other frameworks like actix ?

> Do frameworks share lots of commonality, and/or are they just minimal in nature?

In my experience, most of the popular web frameworks in Rust are pretty minimal. Think Go's standard library or express from Node.

Re: Tell HN: My “Rust Web Development” book is released

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Congrats!! 2 years is a very long time, but your persistence payed off!! Any tips that helped you stick to the same project for long period of time?

To be honest, the contract with the publisher and my editor. I have a family with two young kids, so there is always something (sick, more fun playing with them etc.).

Also the goal of having a publisher "approve" of my writing was a huge motivation!

In the end, it helps to deliver chapters to the publisher and to the early-reviewer, so you always make progress and feel accomplishments along the way. I am not a type to self-publish this, maybe 5 years ago or in 10 years from now, but I am very happy what Manning offers and the care they give each writer.

Re: Tell HN: My “Rust Web Development” book is released

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I am new to Rust. How is the book (or Rust?) agnostic to any particular framework? Do frameworks share lots of commonality, and/or are they just minimal in nature? Also, even if the book is agnostic to frameworks, will it still help me learn other frameworks like actix ?

> Do frameworks share lots of commonality, and/or are they just minimal in nature? In my experience, most of the popular web frameworks in Rust are pretty minimal. Think Go's standard library or express from Node.

That's good to hear. I definitely prefer minimal frameworks like Express over frameworks like Spring.
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