Comment App Backend

Serves comments; uses Restful API; stores comments into SQLite database; uses WARP framework.

Goals

1. Learn Rust language.
2. Make a re-usable module / app / library.
3. Support Anonymous users and Logged-In users; Anonymous users cannot modify/delete comment once submitted; whereas Logged-In users can modify/delete it.

How to use it

1. Clone or download this app.
2. Edit Settings.toml file to update names of database folder, log folder, ip address, ...
3. Build an executable file using $cargo build --release.
4. Copy following files/folder into a separate folder, say "~/projects":
   a. target/release/comment-app-backend file
   b. Settings.toml file
   c. images folder
   d. commentappbackend.service file
5. Edit commentappbackend.service for folder names; follow instructions in it, to run this app as a service in linux.
6. Assuming entry in Settings.toml file for ip_address as 127.0.0.1:6050, open up a web browser and enter url as http:://127.0.0.1:6050/comments. Browser shows comments in JSON format. It confirms server is running.
   
   • for other possible url paths, refer functions in src/filters.rs source code file. Each function at the start is shown with url path.
   • this backend server can be accessed using
     a. Postman
     b. frontend server
     
     • for frontend server, install CommentAppFrontend.

Demo

A demo application is running at the following address: CommentAppDemo.

Tools

In case of running multiple web applications on different ports, a traffic router (async) can be used.

For authentication, a login app can be used.

For authorization, an authorization library can be used.

License

MIT