In this highly informative interview, the library author David Pedersen explains Tokio Axum, covering a wide variety of topics.

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:17 What is Tokio Axum?
• 2:55 Error handling model
• 5:10 IntoResponse trait
• 6:00 Relationship with ‘tower’ and ‘tower-http’ crates
• 9:58 Documentation
• 11:11 ‘extractor’ module (Request)
• 17:00 FromRequest trait
• 17:58 ‘response’ module
• 19:47 Implementations of IntoResponse trait
• 20:39 ‘axum_extra’ crate, writing ergonomic middleware with ‘from_fn’
• 24:20 ‘axum_core’ crate, writing libraries to work with Axum
• 25:55 middleware onion logic + next version of docs
• 30:08 ‘handler’ trait
• 32:06 Examples
• 32:43 “Routes and handlers close together” Example
• 35:45 Error handling and dependency injection Example
• 37:33 Websockets Example
• 39:37 Static file serving Example
• 41:40 Current state and future of Tokio Axum
• 45:04 Contributing to Axum
• 49:33 What is the hard thing about building such a project?
• 52:17 Thanks!

Tokio Axum Links: https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum
https://docs.rs/axum/latest/axum/

Tokio Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/tokio

David Pedersen: https://github.com/davidpdrsn
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