Rust Project Tracks

Track 1: CLI Todo (Beginner)

• Goal: Offline todo manager with CRUD and persistence.
• Focus: ownership, enums, error handling, clap, serde.
• Milestones: command parsing -> data store -> tests.

Track 2: Markdown Searcher (Beginner+)

• Goal: Index markdown files and query by keyword/tag.
• Focus: iterators, HashMap, file walk, regex.
• Milestones: parser -> inverted index -> output formatting.

Track 3: Concurrent Backup Tool (Intermediate)

• Goal: Parallel backup with checksum validation.
• Focus: thread model, channels, Arc/Mutex, fs reliability.
• Milestones: plan -> worker pool -> checksum -> retry strategy.

Track 4: Async REST API (Intermediate+)

• Goal: Axum + Tokio + SQLite service.
• Focus: async runtime, migrations, pagination, tracing.
• Milestones: schema -> CRUD -> integration tests -> observability.

Track 5: Real-time Chat (Advanced)

• Goal: Multi-client WebSocket chat with reconnect.
• Focus: state management, protocol design, ordering, ACK.
• Milestones: protocol -> room model -> resilience -> load test.

References

• Rust Book projects: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch12-00-an-io-project.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch21-00-final-project-a-web-server.html
• Rustlings: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings