Email Newsletter API

• An API to enable blog visitors subcribe to the newsletter so that they can receive updates when new content is published on the blog.

Development setup

• Install cargo-watch.
• Open your favorite text editor (better be neovim or emacs).
• Run cargo watch -x check -x test -x run to lint, test and run the binary as soon as you make a change to the file.
• Bonus: install and use mold, a very fast linker that can link your Rust binary blazingly fast.

Notable Dependencies

• actix-web: Most popular Rust web framework
• serde: Data structure serialization/deserialization
• tokio: Async Runtime
• tracing: Alternative to traditional logging
• sqlx: SQL toolkit for Rust. Offers compile-time SQL checked queries

Technical Write Up