Customer Management Application

This is a full-stack web application for managing customer data, consisting of a Next.js frontend and a Rust backend API.

Frontend (Next.js)

The frontend is built with Next.js and provides a modern, responsive user interface for managing customer records.

Features

• Customer list view with pagination
• Search customers by company name
• Sort customers by different fields
• Add new customers
• Edit existing customers
• Delete customers
• Responsive design

Technical Details

• Built with Next.js and React
• Material-UI components for consistent styling
• Axios for API communication
• Form validation and error handling
• State management with React hooks
• TypeScript for type safety

Backend (Rust)

The backend is a RESTful API built with Rust and the Rocket framework that provides customer management functionality. It connects to a SQLite database (Northwind) and implements CRUD operations.

Features

• Get all customers with pagination, filtering and sorting
• Get a single customer by ID
• Create new customers
• Update existing customers
• Delete customers
• CORS enabled for cross-origin requests

Technical Details

• Built with Rust and Rocket web framework
• SQLite database with rusqlite for data persistence
• JSON serialization/deserialization with serde
• Thread-safe database access with Mutex
• Error handling and input validation

Running the Project

Backend

1. Make sure you have Rust and Cargo installed
2. Navigate to the back directory
3. Place the Northwind SQLite database file in the project root
4. Run cargo run to start the server
5. API will be available at http://localhost:8001

Frontend

1. Make sure you have Node.js installed
2. Navigate to the front directory
3. Install dependencies with npm install
4. For development, copy .env.example to .env
5. Run npm run dev to start the development server
6. Access the application at http://localhost:3000