Account System

This is a website that contains all the necessary features of an account system, including:

• Signing up
• Logging in
• Storing users in database
• Hashing passwords
• Storing a Json Web Token in your cookies in order to stay logged in

Technologies Used

• Frontend: TypeScript with React
• Backend: Rust with Actix Web
• Database: PostgreSQL

Self-Hosting (Frontend)

1. Install NodeJS
2. (Optional) Create a .env file to specify the port, eg. PORT=3001
3. Run npm start in the /client directory

Self-Hosting (Backend)

1. Install Rust
2. Create a PostgreSQL database with a table called users, with the columns id (integer + auto-incrementing), username (text), and password (text)
3. Create a .env file to specify the URL to the PostgreSQL database, and a port, with the variable names DATABASE_URL and PORT.
4. In the frontend, replace all fetch URLs with http://localhost:(PORT) or whatever URL the backend is running on