Example of building a web service and client with Iron and Hyper

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I needed to create a web service and client that speak JSON and I wrote down my process of figuring out how to use Iron and Hyper. Maybe it will be of interest to somebody.

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I sit here waiting a while expecting it to print "On 3000" but it never does. Cargo
must be capturing output.

I believe Iron::new(hello_world).http("localhost:3000").unwrap(); blocks.

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Thanks for post! Waiting long time for tutorials for Rust + Web

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Yea it has to, because when the main thread would reach the end of main, then all remaining threads would get exited, which means the webserver would die instantly.

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Nice tutorial!

If you are looking for a template engine for Iron to create server-rendered web pages, here is my handlebars-iron for you:

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@sunng thanks for the link!