REST API with Rust using Actix-Web 2.0

API Endpoints:

• GET /users ➡ returns all users
• POST /users ➡ takes in a JSON payload and creates a new user based on it
• PUT /users ➡ takes in a JSON payload and updates the user
• GET /users/{id} ➡ returns the user with a given id
• DELETE /users/{id} ➡ deletes the user with a given id
• POST /register ➡ takes in a JSON payload and creates a new user based on it
• POST /auth ➡ takes in a JSON payload for login
• DELETE /auth ➡ for logout
• Get /auth ➡ returns the user data if we are signed in and a status 401 if we are not

Crates Used

• actix-redis
• actix-rt
• actix-session
• actix-web
• chrono
• derive_more
• diesel
• diesel_migrations
• dotenv
• env_logger
• lazy_static
• log
• rand
• rust-argon2
• serde
• serde_derive
• serde_json
• uuid

Dependencies

Install Diesel CLI:

• Click here for reference on how to install diesel_cli

cargo install diesel_cli

How To Use

• clone repository

git clone https://github.com/dansoy/rust-api project-name

• cd into your project

cd project-name

• create a copy of your .env file

cp .env.example .env

• create an empty Mysql database and add your database details to the .env file

DB_HOST=
DB_PORT=
DB_DATABASE=
DB_USERNAME=
DB_PASSWORD=

• run server

cargo run