A web app for finding Rust issues to work on.
Try it out at https://www.rustaceans.org/findwork
For documentation on the backing data, see schema.md.
The backend is written in Rust, it presents as a web server. The frontend is a
single-page React app. It is served by the backend as a static file (requires
pre-compilation). The frontend queries the backend for all its data on loading
(this data is also available at the data endpoint for other applications).
After the initial data load, the frontend can run offline.
The backend is configured by the JSON files in the data directory. On startup
and after a timeout, the backend queries the GitHub API to get data about
relevant issues. The backend then keeps this in memory and makes it available in
a convenient JSON form on the data endpoint. The backend also serves static
data - it will serve anything in the static directory verbatim, and any other
URL it will serve static/index.html (configurable).
The backend is configurable via data/config.json.
A single-page React app, it pulls the data from the backend and renders the app in a fairly straightforward, hierarchical manner. There is very little state. The frontend should be independent once it has loaded the data from the server.
html and css are in the static directory. If you run webpack it will compile
the src into static too, so it can be served by the backend.
Run this command in /front.
npm install
You will need to make a data/config.json, you can copy data/config.json.example
and fill out the blank fields.
To test you will need to make a back/test-token.txt, it just needs a valid
GitHub auth token.
cd back
cargo build
cd front
./node_modules/.bin/webpack --watch
cd back
cargo test
You will need a GitHub auth token in back/test-token.txt and internet access.
cd back
cargo run --release