🚀 New YouTube Video: Mastering Rust API Authentication with JWT & PostgreSQL - Step-by-Step Guide
Hey, amazing community! 👋
I’m thrilled to announce that my latest YouTube video, "Mastering Rust API Authentication with JWT & PostgreSQL," is now live! 🎉
As a developer passionate about creating secure and scalable backends, I wanted to dive deep into one of the most crucial aspects of web development—authentication. In this video, I guide you through building a robust and secure API using Rust, PostgreSQL, and JSON Web Tokens (JWT). Whether you’re just starting out with Rust or looking to enhance your backend skills, this video has something for everyone.
What You’ll Learn:
Setting Up the Rust API Project: We’ll start by setting up our Rust project and configuring it with PostgreSQL for seamless database management.
Performing Database Migrations: Learn how to define your database models, create schemas, and run migrations using SQLx-CLI. This ensures your database is ready to handle user data securely.
Loading Environment Variables: Properly manage sensitive information like database credentials and JWT secrets using environment variables.
Connecting to PostgreSQL: Establish a solid connection between your Rust application and PostgreSQL database, ensuring data is stored and retrieved efficiently.
Handling API Errors: Implement error handling mechanisms that provide clear feedback to your API users, making your application more robust and user-friendly.
Creating Data Transfer Objects (DTOs): Define DTOs for handling data flow between your API and its clients, ensuring data consistency and security.
Utility Functions: We’ll cover how to hash and compare passwords securely, as well as sign and verify JWTs to protect your API endpoints.
Database Access Layer: Implement a database access layer to abstract your database operations, making your code cleaner and more maintainable.
Authentication Middleware Guard: Learn to create middleware that guards your routes, ensuring only authenticated users can access certain parts of your API.
Building Authentication Endpoints: Step-by-step, we’ll build the essential authentication endpoints—register, login, and logout—using Rust and PostgreSQL.
User Management: Implement endpoints for retrieving user information, including a list of users and authenticated user details.
Integrating CORS and API Routes: We’ll add CORS middleware to manage cross-origin requests and register all our API routes seamlessly.
Interactive API Documentation: Explore your API with Swagger UI, where you can interact with the endpoints, view request/response formats, and test functionality directly in the browser.
Adding Redoc and Rapidoc: Learn how to serve API documentation in different formats, making it accessible and user-friendly for developers.
Why This Video Is for You:
If you’ve ever struggled with setting up secure authentication in your Rust applications, this video will be a game-changer. I break down each step in detail, ensuring that by the end of the video, you’ll have a fully functional and secure API that you can build upon for future projects.
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