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I'd highly recommend reading some articles by Luca Palmieri[1], or even buying his book[2]. Although I didn't learn this stack by working through his book, when

by bsnnkv 2y ago

I'd highly recommend reading some articles by Luca Palmieri[1], or even buying his book[2]. Although I didn't learn this stack by working through his book, whenever I had questions through the years, my searches usually led me to his articles which are often excerpts from the larger book. The high level of API stability and lack of churn in the Actix ecosystem makes the book a particularly good investment for someone looking to settle on this stack in my opinion. In keeping with the topic of this submission, I doubt I'd be comfortable spending money on a similar book about building web apps with React. [1]: https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2020-08-09-zero-to-production-3-how-to-bootstrap-a-new-rust-web-api-from-scratch https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2020-08-09-zero-to-productio... [2]: https://www.zero2prod.com https://www.zero2prod.com

pdimitar 2y ago
Super helpful, thank you. My finger is hovering on the "Buy" button but I have to ask: how up to date is the book to the current Actix version / API? EDIT: Frak it, I just bought it. :D
- bsnnkv 2y ago
  For others reading this in the future: > Roughly every three months, the book is updated to keep up with the latest developments in the Rust ecosystem. In particular, we make sure to update all the crates we use in the book to their latest released version. If you bought a copy of the ebook, you can get the latest book revision at any time by redownloading the content from here.
  - WD-42 2y ago
    I bought the printed version as I find it easier to work through. I was expecting it to be relatively out of date, but I was OK with that since the libraries in this ecosystem are relatively stable. To my surprise and delight, in the first few pages I came across the sentence "As of October 2024" So I think the printed version is either print to order or printed in very small batches, considering the book itself is several years old at this point. I'm half way through it now, I can highly recommend it. And if you are like me and prefer a printed version, don't be afraid to spring for it.
  - pdimitar 2y ago
    And again for the future readers: do we the buyers get a notification that there's an update and we should re-download?

by bsnnkv 2y ago

pdimitar 2y ago

Super helpful, thank you. My finger is hovering on the "Buy" button but I have to ask: how up to date is the book to the current Actix version / API? EDIT: Frak it, I just bought it. :D

bsnnkv 2y ago
For others reading this in the future: > Roughly every three months, the book is updated to keep up with the latest developments in the Rust ecosystem. In particular, we make sure to update all the crates we use in the book to their latest released version. If you bought a copy of the ebook, you can get the latest book revision at any time by redownloading the content from here.
- WD-42 2y ago
  I bought the printed version as I find it easier to work through. I was expecting it to be relatively out of date, but I was OK with that since the libraries in this ecosystem are relatively stable. To my surprise and delight, in the first few pages I came across the sentence "As of October 2024" So I think the printed version is either print to order or printed in very small batches, considering the book itself is several years old at this point. I'm half way through it now, I can highly recommend it. And if you are like me and prefer a printed version, don't be afraid to spring for it.
- pdimitar 2y ago
  And again for the future readers: do we the buyers get a notification that there's an update and we should re-download?