rust-web-boilerplate

Are we web yet? Yes, almost! A boilerplate for working web server with Rust.

Setup

This boilerplate uses tide, which requires futures 0.3, which requires the nightly version of rust. You can setup nightly rust just for this project with following command:

rustup override set nightly-2019-04-18

Usage

Cool help messages from structopt.

$ cargo run -- --help
rust-web-boilerplate 0.1.0
pbzweihander <pbzweihander@gmail.com>

USAGE:
    rust-web-boilerplate [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
        --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -h, --host <host>     [default: 0.0.0.0]
    -p, --port <port>     [default: 5000]

$ cargo run -- -h localhost -p 8080
Server is listening on: http://[::1]:8080

$ curl localhost:8080/ping
OK

$ curl localhost:8080/hello/rustacean
Hello, rustacean!

$ curl -d "I love Rust" localhost:8080/hello/ferris
Hello, ferris!
Your message was "I love Rust".

Test

With tide and http-service-mock, you can write some integration tests for your web app! Check out the test code.

cargo test

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rust-web-boilerplate is distributed under the terms of the MIT License