cindy-next-rust

Graphql backend for cindy-next.

It is based on async-graphql, actix-web, diesel, powered by Rust.

Features

• Dynamic query building with diesel (with support for complex filtering)
• Graphql interface
• Realtime Subscriptions
• Authorization
• Access control
• Relay-like pagination (not included)

Dev-Dependencies

• Rust, first of all. Follow the instructions on rustup.rs if you don't have one. The minimum supported version is v1.46.

  # Install rustup
  curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
  # Install latest rust and cargo
  rustup install nightly

• Postgresql ≥ 12, and its dev library.

  # Debian-based OS
  sudo apt-get install postgresql libpq-dev
  # Arch linux
  sudo pacman -S postgresql postgresql-libs

• Diesel client. You need to compile this yourself

  cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features "postgres"

• just (optional), to run recipes defined in justfile.

  cargo install just

Quickstart

Basically only two binaries (cindy-next-rust and diesel) are required in the server. Currently we do not provide compiled binaries. It is recommended to compile them yourself and push the binaries to the server.

• Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/heyrict/cindy-next-rust.

• Create an empty database for Cindy with sudo -u postgres psql

  CREATE ROLE cindy LOGIN PASSWORD 'cindy-password';
  ALTER ROLE cindy SET client_encoding TO 'utf8';
  ALTER ROLE cindy SET timezone TO 'UTC';
  CREATE DATABASE cindy-db;
  GRANT ALL ON DATABASE cindy-db TO cindy;
  \c cindy-db;
  GRANT ALL ON schema public to cindy;
  CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;
  CREATE EXTENSION "uuid-ossp";
  

• Copy .env.example to .env and edit it based on your flavor.

  Make sure DATABASE_URL in the config file points to your postgres instance. If you followed the steps above, it is postgres://cindy:cindy-password@127.0.0.1:5432/cindy-db.

• Setup the database with diesel database setup && diesel migration run.

• Run cargo run --release or ./path/to/cindy-next-rust if you have a compiled binary to start the server. For the former command, once compiled, it can be found in ./target/release/cindy-next-rust.

• Create an admin account with just signup.

• Load initial data to the database with psql cindy-db < setup/jp/initdb.up.sql.