MiniWeb

Abstract

This is a biased little project, that tries to establish a basic infrastructure to build a webservice.

The main objective is to build a basic template one can quickly start developing a service with

The project aims to implement approaches as simple straight-forward over generalized multi-purpose.

It assumes that you clone the code, and adjust it from there, without keeping up to date. So this is not thought of being a framework.

Choices

Philosophies

• Semantic over Mnemonic
• As flat HTML as possible

On the Backend

• axum as webserver framework
• minijinja as template renderer
• sea-orm as database framework

On the Frontend

• markdown.css to provide out of the box CSS for markdown
• hyperscript for light weight event scripting
• htmx for service interaction
• Fomantic-UI as default CSS framework (once Semantic)

Features

The aims of the project for now are:

• Template Rendering with Hot-Reload
• Static-File Serving
• Logging
• 404 Handler
• 500 Handler
• Media File Serving
• Admin Site with Registry
• Storage based tools (for files and cloud)
• Database
• Redis / KV Store

Future Ideas:

• Direct Markdown Sites as wikiserve with the storage tools
• static-image and media-image Service for automatic thumbnails
• User and Role Implementation
• Event-Bus link to RabbitMQ

Windows 10

Env if using MINGW64;

export PATH=$PATH:"/c/Program Files/PostgreSQL/12/bin"
export PQ_LIB_DIR="C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\12\lib"

Install a postgres: choco install postgresql12 --force --params '/Password:root'

Mugshot

Project Structure

Root Folders

• docker: all about docker, atm. database docker image for development.
• docs: place for all future documentation, including this.
• entity: crate containing database models
• migration: crate containing database migrations
• rear: crate containing the main library for rear
• src: crate containing a runnable project implementing rear as a demo project
• static: static files used by rear
• strinto: experimental crate for an idea.
• templates: all templates for rear-admiral.