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# The Rocket Programming Guide
Welcome to Rocket!
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This is the official guide for Rocket master. It is designed to serve as a
starting point to writing web applications with Rocket and Rust. The guide is
also designed to be a reference for experienced Rocket developers. This guide is
conversational in tone. For purely technical documentation with examples, see
the [API documentation](@api).
The guide is split into several sections, each with a focus on a different
aspect of Rocket. The sections are:
- **[Introduction](introduction/):** introduces Rocket and its philosophy.
- **[Quickstart](quickstart/):** presents the minimal steps necessary to
run your first Rocket application.
- **[Upgrading from v0.5](upgrading/):** a migration guide from v0.5 to v0.6.
- **[Getting Started](getting-started/):** a gentle introduction to getting
your first Rocket application running.
- **[Overview](overview/):** describes the core concepts of Rocket.
- **[Requests](requests/):** discusses handling requests: control-flow,
parsing, and validating.
- **[Responses](responses/):** discusses generating responses.
- **[State](state/):** how to manage state in a Rocket application.
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- **[Fairings](fairings/):** provides an overview of Rocket's structured
middleware.
- **[Testing](testing/):** how to unit and integration test a Rocket
application.
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- **[Configuration](configuration/):** how to configure a Rocket application.
- **[Pastebin Tutorial](pastebin-tutorial/):** a tutorial creating a pastebin
with Rocket.
- **[Conclusion](conclusion/):** concludes the guide and discusses next steps
for learning.
- **[FAQ](faq/):** answers to frequently asked questions about Rocket and
using it.
## Getting Help
The official community support channels are via Matrix chat on
[`#rocket:mozilla.org`] and via [GitHub Discussions]. To join us on Matrix, we
recommend the browser-based [Element] client. The [FAQ](faq/) also provides
answers to commonly asked questions.
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[GitHub Discussions]: https://github.com/rwf2/Rocket/discussions
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[`#rocket:mozilla.org`]: https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#rocket:mozilla.org
[Element]: https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#rocket:mozilla.org