Realworld with Actix + Tera + SQLx

You can check it online in https://realworld-actix-fullstack.onrender.com

How to run it

You need a PostgreSQL database available locally or remotely.

docker run -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -p 5432:5432 --name postgres postgres
cp .env.example .env
cargo run

The application reads these environment variables:

• DATABASE_URL
• COOKIE_SECRET
• HOST
• PORT

How to test it

You will need a postgres database up and running locally in order to execute tests:

docker run -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -p 5432:5432 --name postgres postgres
cargo test

How to deploy it

1. Build and run the container locally:

docker build -t realworld-rust-fullstack .
docker run \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -e DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres \
  -e COOKIE_SECRET=your_long_random_secret \
  -e HOST=0.0.0.0 \
  -e PORT=8080 \
  realworld-rust-fullstack

2. For any container platform, configure these environment variables:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres
COOKIE_SECRET=your_long_random_secret
HOST=0.0.0.0
PORT=8080

3. Then deploy the built image to your platform of choice.

The application runs SQL migrations automatically on startup.

Extra notes

• I wanted to write 0 javascript, so the experience is like a MPA. Everything is written in Rust with Jinja2 style templates(Tera). Very fast, although the limitation of pure HTML is a major drawback if this is a real realworld application that needs to be maintained and extended.
• All features are applied. However, instead of following a JWT authentication, I used session based.
• In HTML, there's <a> to make get requests to other pages and <form> to make get or post requests. This limitation forced me to only make routes with GET and POST.
• The tests can be expanded more, however, during compilation time SQLx makes sure that all queries are well writen and returns what we expect(so that's somewhat tested =D).