EstebanBorai / rusty-hackernews

HackerNews UI built in Rust using the Official HackerNews API. The Name "FluxCap" comes from the Flux Capacitor used in "Back to the Future" as it has a "Y" shape.

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HackerNews UI built in Rust using the Official HackerNews API. The Name "FluxCap" comes from the Flux Capacitor used in "Back to the Future" as it has a "Y" shape.

Development

Docker

You must have Docker and Docker Compose installed in your system

1. Create a copy of .env.sample into a fille name .env

2. Execute docker-compose -f ./docker-compose.dev.yml up --build

3. Install the sqlx-cli using cargo. Follow the crate documentation

4. Run database migrations sqlx migrate run

When done, remember to teardown the Docker system by executing docker-compose -f ./docker-compose.dev.yml down

Client

1. Install trunk following the official documentation.

2. Install de Rust target for WASM using rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

3. cd into the client directory and run trunk serve

Server

1. Install cargo watch, even if its not required is conveninent to have the project built on every file change in the project

2. Run cargo watch -x "run --package server"

3. The website is available at http://0.0.0.0:3000

Deployment

Deployment is done in Heroku using the emk/heroku-buildpack-rust.