A novelty website/demo written entirely in Rust.
The backend uses Rocket Warp (WebServer) + Diesel (ORM).
The frontend uses Yew (React/Elm-like framework).
External dependency management is handled with Nix/Nixos.
Status
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User accounts, authentication, articles, forum system, and bucket questions game are implemented on the backend.
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The implementation of a chat system is being finalized.
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Bucket questions will require Websockets, so while a REST API is exposed to work with them, much of that functionality will migrate there once set up.Bucket questions just use HTTP. -
BucketQuestions, Forums, Auth, and Some user features are implemented in the frontend.
- The chat system, articles, user management, and password resets are not yet implemented in the frontend.
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Development is suspended at the moment. This project currently serves as an example on how to use Rust to create an integrated webserver + webapp. Development has slowed due to a lack of interest, time, and the fact that the frontend stack suffers greatly from excessively long compiletimes, which makes it hard to work on. Note: Yew has improved greatly since this was last worked upon. Compile times are down significantly (compiling in debug is now possible). The dominating factors are now a lack of time and interest.
Alternatives
https://github.com/saschagrunert/webapp.rs This project also shows off how to make a fullstack rust app in a more succinct and organized manner, and is better positioned as a template - provided you agree with choice of actix for the backend with session tokens for authentication versus the choices of warp and JWTs used here.
Build Instructions
- Initial setup : https://github.com/hgzimmerman/FullstackRustDemo/wiki/Initial-setup
- Release instructions: https://github.com/hgzimmerman/FullstackRustDemo/wiki/Release-Instructions