Rust has many packages available that allow the developer to spin up a web server with it, and Rust is an ideal choice for a web project where memory, safety, and speed are of a great significance.

In this chapter, we will be playing with the nickel crate in Rust, which is a web application framework in Rust and provides all the fundamental units required for building a web application in Rust. The fundamental units include setting up a web server, handling web requests, and more. We will focus on the different macros and types that the nickel crate provides us for creating a web application in Rust.