Cookiecutter template for Rust full stack web application

This template provides a full stack rust application, using rocket in the backend and seed in the frontend. The project is split into 3 subprojects:

• backend - Implements the server side using the rocket web framework.
• frontend - Implments the frontend using seed, bootstrap and scss, packaged together using webpack.
• shared - Is a dependency of both backend and frontend and allows sharing code between them. Specifically it is useful to share structs which are serialized using serde.

Installing

We include a small build tool called wasp. From your package manager make sure you have rustup and npm installed.

$ rustup update
$ rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
$ ./wasp setup

Building

Simply run:

$ ./wasp build

This will build backend, frontend and package everything together with webpack. It can then be used either using:

$ ./wasp run 

Or just by running

$ cd backend
$ cargo run

The build tool also provides an automatic rebuild in case files were changed on the drive. It will automatically rebuild the frontend and backend projects as required and restart the webserver. Run it with:

$ ./wasp watch

Note that this depends upon having pyinotify installed and running linux.

Deploying

It is possible to create prebuilt zip-package for deployment with all files relevant files included using:

$ ./wasp release

The compiled package will be ready in build/prod.zip.

There are deployment files ready in the deploy folder. We make use of nginx to serve static files and as reverse proxy to invoke backend.

The deploy.sh shell script gives a reference of all the required steps to deploy the app.