Node CLI Shuttle Example
Introduction
This is an example of what can be achieved by using shuttle's node CLI package to quickly bootstrap a Next.js application that uses Rust as a back end, complete with commands that integrate both sides together already built in.
We will be building a fully working login portal with a dashboard.
Preview
How To Use
You'll need Rust installed, as well as cargo shuttle. You can install cargo shuttle by running the following command:
cargo install cargo-shuttle
You can also use binstall for the installation:
cargo binstall cargo-shuttle
Note that this will require protoc due to a recent release change; you can see more about this here.
Once that's done, all you need to do is to install the dependencies on the root of the project and then log in with shuttle using npm run shuttle-login, then you can run this project locally or deploy it!
Note: Make sure you change the Shuttle.toml file to be a different project name otherwise you will get a 400 error.
Packages/libs used
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Next: The whole point of this repo.
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React: The whole point of this repo (Next builds on React, so this is an unspoken pre-requisite).
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TailwindCSS: CSS.
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Autoprefix / PostCSS: CSS (TailwindCSS pre-requisites).
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shuttle_service: The whole point of this repo.
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shuttle_shared_db: Using shuttle's provisioned database.
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shuttle_secrets: shuttle secrets capabilities (environment variables).
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sync_wrapper: A wrapper for making async things, sync (default for deploying axum via shuttle)
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axum: A popular Rust web framework with easy to use syntax and highly compatible with tower-http middleware.
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axum_extra: An add-on library for axum.
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tower_http: A Rust library for using many different types of middleware (rate limiting, auth, cors... etc) as well as easily making your own.
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bcrypt: Salted password hash encryption.
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lettre: A library for sending emails over SMTP.
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serde: A library for serializing and deserializing structs (required for Axum).
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rand: A random generator crate. We use this to generate session IDs but also can use it to generate random new strings, which is useful for password resets.
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sqlx: A library for working with databases and creating async connection pools.