Rust Dating Board

Overview

Rust Dating Board is a web application for creating and managing dating profiles. This is my first project in Rust, created to explore programming in the language. Despite being a learning project, it is fully functional.

Features

• User authentication with JWT and Google OAuth.
• Dynamic profile and photo management.
• Migration system with SeaORM.
• Internationalization support using rust-i18n.
• Efficient image processing with image and imageproc.

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Key Frameworks and Libraries

Backend

• Actix-Web: A powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework.
• Actix-Files: For serving static files.
• SeaORM: An async & dynamic ORM for Rust with a powerful migration tool.

Database

• PostgreSQL: Relational database for managing user data.
• SeaORM CLI: Automatically generates entities and handles migrations.

Authentication and Security

• jsonwebtoken: For handling JWT tokens.
• Google OAuth: Simplifies user authentication via Google.
• Google reCAPTCHA: Protects against bots.

Utilities

• Sailfish: A high-performance templating engine.
• Image & ImageProc: For image manipulation.

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Installation

Prerequisites

• Rust (2021 edition)
• PostgreSQL
• .env file with the necessary environment variables (see below)

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone git@github.com:UnknownNPC/rust-dating-board.git
   cd dating-board

2. Install dependencies:

   cargo build

3. Configure the .env file:

   SITE_PROTOCOL='http'
   SITE_URL='localhost'
   SITE_PORT='8080'
   
   DATABASE_URL='postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/db'
   
   JWT_SECRET='your_jwt_secret'
   JWT_MAXAGE=44640
   
   OAUTH_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID='your_google_client_id'
   OAUTH_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET='your_google_client_secret'
   OAUTH_GOOGLE_REDIRECT_URL='http://localhost:8080/sign_in/google'
   
   CAPTCHA_GOOGLE_ID='your_captcha_id'
   CAPTCHA_GOOGLE_SECRET='your_captcha_secret'
   CAPTCHA_GOOGLE_SCORE=0.7
   
   ALL_PHOTOS_FOLDER_NAME='photos'

4. Run the migrations:

   cd migration
   cargo run -- up -u $DATABASE_URL

   Or using SeaORM CLI:

   sea-orm-cli migrate up

5. Start the application:

   cargo run

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Build

To build the project in release mode, use the following command:

cargo build --release

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Server Setup

It is recommended to set up the application behind an NGINX reverse proxy for better performance and security. Configure NGINX to forward requests to the application running on localhost:8080.