Full-Stack Rust Project

Introduction

Welcome to my Full-Stack Rust Project! This repository is my journey into learning Rust by building a comprehensive full-stack application. The project is organized into several components: the rustycrab-api for backend API and Discord bot, rustycrab-webapp for the frontend web application, and rustycrab-model for shared data models used by both the API and the web application.

Project Overview

The project is divided into distinct sections, each demonstrating different aspects of Rust's capabilities:

• rustycrab-api: backend, consisting of a Rust-based API with axum and a Discord bot using twilight
• rustycrab-webapp: frontend with Yew and WebAssembly
• rustycrab-model: shared data models and structures used by both the API and the web application

Learning Objectives

• Gain a deep understanding of Rust and its features.
• Explore popular Rust crates like tokio for asynchronous runtime, serde for serialization and deserialization, and seaORM for database interactions.
• Navigate and utilize documentation from crates.io and various crate documentation websites.
• Implement best practices for Rust development to ensure code efficiency and safety.

Highlights and Progress

• Concurrent API and Discord Bot Operation: One of the standout achievements of this project so far is running the API and a Discord bot concurrently, both accessing the same database. This setup exemplifies Rust's prowess in handling parallel tasks and shared resources efficiently, ensuring seamless operation and data consistency.

• Generalization of Database Queries: The use of seaORM has enabled me to prototype a generalized approach for SQL database interactions, minimizing redundancy and enhancing code maintainability.

Future Plans

Once the API rewrite is complete and stable, the next phase of this project will involve rebuilding my website using the yew crate, a modern Rust framework for creating multi-threaded frontend web apps with WebAssembly.

Contributing

While this project is primarily for my learning and exploration, suggestions, and discussions are welcome! If you have insights or suggestions, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

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Thank you for visiting my project! Stay tuned for more updates as I continue my journey with Rust.