Codecrafters HTTP Server Project in Rust

• Codecrafters HTTP Server Project in Rust
  • My Review
    • Liked
    • Disliked
    • Evaluation
  • Initial Content
    • Passing the first stage
    • Stage 2 & beyond

My Review

Liked

I liked that each challenge built on top of fundamental concepts and then made me want to restructure my code to efficiently provide answers.

Disliked

The only thing that I disliked was for the file creation, you needed to test which directory was your file actually being created in and write that in statically. Or maybe that's just me and I should have figured out how to read and create files in the programs current directory.

Evaluation

This project increased my confidence in topics that I thought that I knew well. Initially, I wanted to write spaghetti code in a single main.rs file, but the developer (and laziness) in me made me want to organize my code. I'm glad I picked up this project during a time when I was dealing with some burnout. This project was enjoyable, challenging, and well-structured. Unintuitively, one of the cures for burnout is leaning into the work and picking up coding projects outside of my day-job.

Initial Content

This is a starting point for Rust solutions to the "Build Your Own HTTP server" Challenge.

HTTP is the protocol that powers the web. In this challenge, you'll build a HTTP/1.1 server that is capable of serving multiple clients.

Along the way you'll learn about TCP servers, HTTP request syntax, and more.

Note: If you're viewing this repo on GitHub, head over to codecrafters.io to try the challenge.

Passing the first stage

The entry point for your HTTP server implementation is in src/main.rs. Study and uncomment the relevant code, and push your changes to pass the first stage:

git commit -am "pass 1st stage" # any msg
git push origin master

Time to move on to the next stage!

Stage 2 & beyond

Note: This section is for stages 2 and beyond.

1. Ensure you have cargo (1.87) installed locally
2. Run ./your_program.sh to run your program, which is implemented in src/main.rs. This command compiles your Rust project, so it might be slow the first time you run it. Subsequent runs will be fast.
3. Commit your changes and run git push origin master to submit your solution to CodeCrafters. Test output will be streamed to your terminal.