Clip Stash

Web Service that allows to paste and share clipboard content.
Features:

• Link sharing
• Clip expiration
• JSON API
• Password protected clips

Architecture

Components

Web

• Communicates wih outside world (clients):
  • Reports errors
  • renders pages
  • provides API
• Manages application state
  • Establishes database connections
  • Binds ports
  • Spawn background tasks
• Has no direct access to data layer/component. It must go through the Service component to get data.

Service

• Intermediate layer between web requests and database.
  • can communicate with web and data components.
  • can't communicate with clients
• Abstracts user requests and data access
• Implements core application logic

Database

• Manages data storage and retrieval
• Works directly with database
• No logic: only queries (no modification on ingoing/outgoing data)\
• Can only communicate with service component

Domain

• Data types shared across components
• Enforces business rules on data
  • Domain objects cannot be created unless all rules satisfied

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Setup

Database

1. Install sqlx-cli:

   cargo install sqlx-cli
   

2. Create DB and run initial migration:

    sqlx database setup --source "db/migrations"
   

Credit

Jason Lennon Rust Course