Comment App Frontend

It renders web pages to access/add/modify/delete comments data at commentappbackend server.

It uses:
- handlebars templates,
- Reqwest client framework,
- WARP framework.

dependency

A running commentappbackend server is required.

Goals

1. Learn Rust, web application in particular.
2. Use it as a commenting module/app/library in other web applications.
3. Keep comment data along with application, and hence avoid third party commenting system.

How to use it

1. Clone or download this app from github.
2. Edit Settings.toml file to update ip address, app server's ip address, log folder name.
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-frontend file
   b. Settings.toml file
   c. templates folder
   d. images folder
   e. authorizationdata_ folder
   f. commentappfrontend.service file
5. Edit commentappfrontend.service for folder names and follow instructions in it, to run this app as a service in linux.
6. Assuming an entry in Settings.toml file for ipaddress as 127.0.0.1:6060 and commentapp_frontend server running at 127.0.0.1:6050, open up a web browser and enter url as http:://127.0.0.1:6060/comments. Browser shows Comments view. 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.

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