A fast, modular, and efficient RESTful API built with the Rocket web framework in Rust 🚀.

• About
• Features
• Getting Started
• API Overview
• Project Structure
• Testing
• Security
• Contributing
• License

rest_rocket is a lightweight and scalable RESTful API designed to serve as a foundation for modern web applications and microservices. Built using the powerful Rocket framework, it emphasizes performance, security, and developer experience.

✅ Built on Rocket 0.5+ ✅ Modular architecture ✅ Type-safe request and response handling ✅ JSON support (via serde) ✅ Centralized error handling ✅ Easy-to-extend endpoints ✅ Environment-based configuration ✅ Ready for production deployment

• Rust (version 1.70+ recommended)
• cargo package manager (comes with Rust)

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/rest_rocket.git
cd rest_rocket

cargo build --release

cargo run

The server will start on http://localhost:8000 by default.

Here’s a quick overview of the available REST endpoints:

curl http://localhost:8000/api/v1/items

Response:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Example Item",
    "description": "This is an example."
  }
]

rest_rocket/
├── src/
│   ├── main.rs            # Application entry point
│   ├── routes.rs          # API route definitions
│   ├── models.rs          # Data models and types
│   ├── handlers.rs        # Request handlers
│   ├── errors.rs          # Custom error handling
│   └── config.rs          # Configuration loading
├── Cargo.toml
└── README.md

Run all tests using:

cargo test

To run the app in development with auto-reloading, use:

cargo install cargo-watch
cargo watch -x run

• Input validation using serde and custom types
• Centralized error handling to avoid leaking sensitive information
• CORS support can be added easily
• TLS and authentication can be integrated if needed

Contributions are welcome! To contribute:

1. Fork this repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/YourFeature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add your feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/YourFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Please make sure to follow the Rust API Guidelines.

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Made with ❤️ using Rust and Rocket.

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✅ If you’d like, I can help you generate the initial code structure (`main.rs`, `routes.rs`, etc.) too.