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Part 2 - Persisting Data To Database

This is article is part of a series. They are: Part 1 - Simple GraphQL Server with Juniper And Actix Part 2 - Persisting Data To Database In the previous blog post, we showed how easy it is to create a GraphQL server in Rust. In this post, we will hook it up to a Postgres database. To do this we will use the tokio-postgres package. While it is possible to use an ORM in Rust (the most popular choice being diesel), that topic is very dense on its own, and even in high level frameworks like Node.

March 30, 2021 Read

Part 1 - Simple GraphQL Server with Juniper And Actix

This is article is part of a series. They are: Part 1 - Simple GraphQL Server with Juniper And Actix Part 2 - Persisting Data To Database Rust is an upcoming programming language that is often regarded as a low-level systems language, however it comes with language features that allow it to extend itself into other domains while minimizing the boilerplate you might expect from a systems language. We will be looking at Rust as a GraphQL Server and demonstrating its simplicity when paired with powerful frameworks such as Juniper and Actix Web.

March 23, 2021 Read