kv-assets & kv-sync

Store static assets in Workers KV for Rust-WASM Worker HTTP servers

The command-line program kv-sync, is a build tool that syncs files between a local folder and Workers KV, and generates a small manifest that is published with the worker wasm.

This crate was originally developed to support StaticFileHandler from wasm-service, to add static file support for Rust Worker-based http servers.

Although wrangler does a similar kind of sync for projects configured as a Workers "Site", (and we do reuse a lot of code from wrangler in this implementation), there are a few differences:

• this works with Rust projects

• The generated manifest is bincode-serialized to a local file, and compiled into the wasm package as a static byte array using, for example, include_bytes!("../data/assets.bin").

• Whereas a wrangler site manifest contains just the KV key path, this manifest contains additional metadata such as last modified time (from the file system), which can be used to process the HTTP header "If-Modified-Since", so the worker can decide whether to return 304-Not-Modified without needing to access KV.

Installation

To install kv-sync, cargo install kv-assets, and the program kv-sync will be added to .cargo/bin.

If you want to include the kv-assets library in your project, add a line to Cargo.toml:

`kv-assets = "0.2"`

kv-sync operations

kv-sync does the following:

• Generates AssetIndex of all files in the specified directory, (default ./public), skipping files beginning with "." or mentioned in .gitignore or .ignore (the search path for .gitignore and .ignore includes the asset folder and its parent) AssetIndex is a HashMap<String,AssetMetadata>, where the key is the relative path from the top asset folder. The AssetIndex is serialized with bincode into a local file.

• Uploads new and updated files to KV storage, using a KV key that includes a file checksum to act as a unique version id.

• If you run kv-sync --prune, it will prune KV storage by removing obsolete files (previous versions no longer referenced). Don't use this flag until the code (with the updated assets.bin) has been successively published, though, or else your'll get file not found errors.

Adding kv-sync to dev workflow

Run kv-sync at least once before publishing the worker the first time. This will upload the files and generate the manifest.

It is not necessary to run kv-sync again until there is a change to assets (anything in the public folder). If a file in that folder changes, run the following:

```sh kv-sync wrangler publish

if wrangler publish succeeded without errors, then also run

kv-sync --prune ```

The first kv-sync regnerates the manifest and uploads modified files; and wrangler publish publishes the code with the updated manifest. if publish succeeds, it is safe to run the prune step to remove old assets in KV storage.