rust-backend-template

Frameworks used:

• Rocket - For managing the REST API
• Diesel - ORM that supports psql, mysql etc.
• slog - For logging

Steps to use:

• First install diesel_cli by using: cargo install diesel

• Initialize your new rust project with the template by using:
  git clone https://github.com/smoke-trees/rust-backend-template

• Create a .env file in the root directory of your project and set the DATABASE_URL variable

• Run diesel setup to create the database.

• Run diesel migration run to create all the necessary tables. Note that the table schemas are written under migrations.

• If you want to create a new migration/table schema, run
  diesel migration create YOUR_MIGRATION_NAME

Notes:

• Running migrations manually is only needed during development. The migrations are embedded in the binary and are executed at runtime during production.

Related links:

• Rocket: https://rocket.rs/
• Diesel: http://diesel.rs/