🗼 bit-tower

bit-tower is a self-hosted open-source web frontend for QBitTorrent, optimised for mobile devices, written in Rust. The web app is a Leptos full-stack app using wasm-bindgen in the browser and served with axum.

WARNING: Currently in early development, not ready for use. Only viewing torrent progress via sockets is implemented.

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Building

Building with Nix is easiest:

nix build

But you can also build it directly. The environment variables need to be set so that we can embed the hash.txt into the binary.

LEPTOS_HASH_FILE_NAME="$(pwd)/target/site/hash.txt" LEPTOS_HASH_FILES=true cargo leptos build --release -vv -P

Deploying

While experimental this project is only available as a Nix flake and can be deployed anywhere you use Nix.

All the assets (wasm, js, css) are bundled into the binary with their hashes. After building you can run like so:

LEPTOS_HASH_FILES=true ./result/bin/bittower

You can configure it to run as a systemd service like so:

{ config, pkgs, bittower, ... }:
{
  # ... 
  systemd.services.bittower = {
      enable = true;
      description = "bittower";
      unitConfig = {
        Type = "simple";
      };
      environment = {
        LEPTOS_SITE_ADDR = "127.0.0.1:3010";
        LEPTOS_ENV = "PROD";
        LEPTOS_HASH_FILES = "true"; # required in release mode
      };
      serviceConfig = {
        Restart="always";
        ExecStart = "${bittower.packages.${pkgs.system}.default}/bin/bittower";
        WorkingDirectory = "${bittower.packages.${pkgs.system}.default}/bin";
      };
      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
  };
};