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Rocksy

A reverse proxy suitable for making multiple web apps running on several distinct ports appear as if they are run on a single port in a development environment.

Status: Initial version is working & ready for use. If Rocksy is useful for you, please star the repo as feedback to help me prioritize my projects.

Example usage

Let's say you have:

  • a Rust backend running on port 9000 (serves everything at /api)
  • the Elm Reactor running on port 8000 (serves front end assets)

And you want to expose these to your browser as one app on port 5555:

rocksy -p 5555 'backend at http://localhost:9000 if ^/api.*$' 'frontend at http://localhost:8000'

What problem does this solve?

Without Rocksy, your front-end would have to make CORS requests to your backend, which means your backend needs to add CORS headers - but only in development, which is a pain.

It's similar to the development proxy that's built into Webpack, which will forward any requests which do not match known front-end resources to a configured back-end - except Rocksy can be used to solve the same problem without having to use Webpack, which is useful if your front-end doesn't rely on Webpack at all.

Note that Rocksy is intended for 100% development use - for production, you should use Nginx or similar. (You could also use Nginx to tackle Rocksy's development-only use case, but Nginx's user experience is less tuned for that.)

Installing Rocksy

Rocksy is written in Rust, so at the moment the easiest way is to compile from source:

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh # install Rust toolchain
git clone <rocksy repo> rocksy
cd rocksy
cargo install                       # build and install Rocksy
$HOME/.cargo/bin/rocksy -h

Once installed, you may want to symlink it to /usr/local/bin/rocksy or add $HOME/.cargo/bin/ to your $PATH.

Configuration

Rocksy is configured by specifying one or more "targets" on the command-line; each target is a server listening on a particular port.

The basic format for a target is the following:

'<target_name> at <target_base_uri> if <target_path_regex>'

(Note that the single quotes are required to ensure your shell passes each target as a single argument to Rocksy, rather than splitting each target into 5 arguments.)

When Rocksy receives a HTTP request on the port that it listens on, it will proxy the request to the first target whose target_path_regex matches the path of the incoming HTTP request.

For convenience, you can also leave off the target_name, the target_path_regex, or both; the most minimal target is simply a URI:

'<target_base_uri>'
  • If you leave off target_name, then target_base_uri will be used as the name. (Be sure to also leave off the text at - the presence of this keyword informs Rocksy that it should parse the target_name first.)
  • If you leave off target_path_regex, then this target will match all requests. You generally only want this for the final target.
  • If you leave off either target_name or target_path_regex, be sure to also leave off the keywords at or if (respectively): the presence of these keywords tells Rocksy that it should look for the other components of a target.

Rocksy also has other command line arguments; for example, it runs on port 5555 by default, but you can change this with the -p flag. Pass the --help flag on the command line for a full listing of available options.

Saving configuration to a file

Currently, Rocksy only supports configuration via command-line arguments. If you'd like to persist configuration to a file, raise an issue :)

As a workaround, you could define an alias or write a small script to invoke Rocksy:

#!/bin/sh

exec $HOME/.cargo/bin/rocksy -p 5555 'backend at http://localhost:9000 if ^/api.*$' 'frontend at http://localhost:8000'

Removing Rocksy

You can uninstall Rocksy using Cargo too:

cargo remove rocksy

Don't forget to clean up any symlinks to $HOME/.cargo/bin/rocksy if you created any!

Known limitations

  • No support for proxying web socket connections

Changelog

v0.1

  • initial release

Credits

The initial wiring together of Tokio and Hyper to proxy requests was taken from https://github.com/brendanzab/hyper-reverse-proxy/ - thanks @brendanzab!

License

Apache.

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