Blog engine

Blog engine for my personal blog at : https://ayzminy.blog.

What's in here ?

Core engine

The core folder is the backend of the server. It's written with Rust and uses Actix web. The ORM used is diesel combined to r2d2 for the connection pool.

It implements the following features :

• Registers an Article metadata on the database.
• Listing all registered articles.
• Requesting a registered article via its uuid.

App

The app is a React app.

The app request the core for articles and generates the page using react-markdown to take into account the content.

Running locally

Database

A postgres database must be setup. You can do so quickly with a docker image :

docker run -e POSTGRES_USER=blogdev -e POSTGRES_DB=blogdb -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=blogdev -p 5432:5432 postgres:latest

Additionally, some packages might be required :

sudo apt install -y libpq-dev build-essential

Core

Running the core doing cargo run :

DATABASE_URL="postgresql://blogdev:blogdev@127.0.0.1:5432/blogdb" RUST_LOG=info cargo run

• DATABASE_URL must be specified.
• You can choose the log level with RUST_LOG.
• PORT (Optional), can also be specified, default at 8080.

App

Specifying the React APP url env variable : the app/blog/.env file specifies the REACT_APP_API_URL which is set to communicate with the core at http://127.0.0.1:8080/.

Running the React app with npm run :

npm install
npm run 

Using with Docker

Dependencies

The docker engine and Docker compose must be installed to run the core.

Env variables

Database URL : The database URL must be specified so that the server can connect to it. Database credentials : The database credentials are also needed. React App API URL : The react app API url, which is basically the API url access to the core. REACT_APP_API_URL

Creating a random password for postgres :

openssl rand -hex 20 > db_secrets.txt

Compose file

A docker compose file is available to run directly the postgres with the precedently created password, the core and the app :

docker compose up

If you find something not working/ Not done properly or any ideas to add

Create an issue please 😄 ! I'll take care of it ASAP!! Some of the things that I'm working on adding:

• Adding units tests for the API
• Adding fuzzing targets as an example
• Adding github workflow for transparency build with rust builder and SLSA
• Implementing a search on the rendered articles (Must be optimized)
• Tags filtering (Ongoing)