Auth Web Microservice with rust using Actix-Web 4.0 - Complete Tutorial

Updated (March, 2022) Updated to actix-web-4.0 Updated (October, 2020) Updated to actix-web-3.1 Updated (September, 2020) Updated to async/await actix-web-2.0 What? We are going to create a web-server in rust that only deals with user registration and authentication. I will be explaining the steps in each file as we go. The complete project code is here repo . Please take all this with a pinch of salt as I鈥檓 a still a noob to rust 馃槈....

June 9, 2019 路 21 min 路 Harry Gill  |    

Creating tide (馃寠) web-server linux (.deb) binary with rust

What?? Updated: 2020-06-24 We are going to make a demo linux web-server with systemd , config file and installable .deb binary in rust. I have been creating web-servers in Node.js for a while. When it comes to running it in production almost always I end up using a solution like pm2 or nodemon to keep the service up and use nginx or apache as reverse proxy to that service. This tutorial is written for people who are fairly new to rust and linux....

January 29, 2019 路 7 min 路 Harry Gill  |    

Auth Web Microservice with rust using Actix-Web - Part 3 (deprecated)

Please Read the Updated version using latest actix-web here , gitlab repo master branch now points to latest version Welcome back to part 3 of the tutorial Checkout Part One and Part Two if you haven鈥檛 already. Complete code for this project is on Gitlab master branch. Updating our cargo.toml? Rust ecosystem is moving fast, in a matter of few week we have many of our crates updated upstream including my sparkpost crate(more on that later)....

November 26, 2018 路 5 min 路 Harry Gill  |    

Auth Web Microservice with rust using Actix-Web - Part 2 (deprecated)

Please Read the Updated version using latest actix-web here , gitlab repo master branch now points to latest version Welcome back to part 2 of the tutorial In part one we have successfully setup bulk base of our Auth microservice. Congratulations if you have your app running and no errors so far. Checkout Part One if you haven鈥檛 already. Complete code for this tutorial is on Gitlab part two branch....

October 28, 2018 路 16 min 路 Harry Gill  |    

Auth Web Microservice with rust using Actix-Web - Part 1 (deprecated)

Please Read the Updated version using latest actix-web here , gitlab repo master branch now points to latest version What? We are going to create a web-server in rust that only deals with user registration and authentication. I will be explaining the steps in each file as we go. The complete project code is here repo . Please take all this with a pinch of salt as I鈥檓 a still a noob to rust 馃槈....

October 18, 2018 路 10 min 路 Harry Gill  |    

Vue SPA, router guard with redirect after login

While making Let鈥檚 Organise SPA(Single page Application) I bumped into the issue of properly checking Auth and redirecting when a user visited a route that required Authentication. If User is authenticated then go to the requested page or redirect to /login page. Once the user has successfully logged in redirect them back to the requested page. Vue Router has something called Navigation Guards to the rescue, that you can use as hook before every route or selected routes....

March 18, 2018 路 3 min 路 Harry Gill  |