njhlai / rustchat

A toy chat app in Rust

rustchat

About

rustchat is a toy chat app with a Rust backend, as an exercise to understand how Rust works. Very heavily based on this article.

rustchat currently comes with a simple Next.js React frontend.

Requirements

• Rust. Recommended to use Rust through rustup.
• Node.js: ver >= 16.X.
• npm

Usage

To start the server, run:

cd core && cargo run

To start the Next.js React frontend, first install dependencies:

cd react && npm install

Then, run:

npm run start

Use any browser and navigate to https://localhost:3000/.