Inlet aims to be a framework-agnostic, procedural CLI web app bootstrapper for Rust web frameworks that leverages the power of packages like syn and quote to bring you a fully complete experience for the terminal that lets you bootstrap web apps that are production-ready.

Inlet works by using the power of AST traversal to be able to generate your code.

To get started you'll want to have the following installed:

• The Rust language

This crate in its current state is mainly for use with shuttle, so you'll want cargo-shuttle installed as well as Docker if you need a database.

Currently this crate isn't published to crates.io, but you can use this crate by git cloning the repo and using cargo run -- create.

Inlet currently supports the following flags:

--crud: Creates API routes for each name inputted (takes a string or string array)
--auth: Creates database-backed cookie session auth routes
--secrets: Adds a Secrets.toml file
--name: The name of your project.

Once you execute the command, the sorcery will commence!

When Inlet is finished, you'll want to make sure to do the following:

• Make sure your migrations are what you want and add any structs you need for requests
• Install sqlx-cli and run migrations (or add the migrations macro to your main function!)
• Add any secrets you might need
• Add a frontend if you want

Once you're ready, you can deploy by running the following:

cargo shuttle project start && cargo shuttle deploy --allow-dirty

• Full CRUD route support
• Database-backed session route support
• Implement auth middleware route
• Automagically add auth middleware to routes
• Bring the Inlet experience to Actix-web
• Implement Oauth
• Implement payment routes
• Support for properly setting up SQL tables/migrations through initial prompt

• chrono: Date-time stuff (get timestamp)
• clap: CLI
• indoc: Multiline string formatting
• inquire: Multi-select
• prettyplease: Unparsing syn back to text so it can be reasonably read
• proc-macro2: Core component of this crate
• quote: Core component of this crate
• syn: Core component of this crate
• toml_edit: Parsing the Cargo.toml file to add dependencies

Feel free to send in pull requests or issues for:

• Security/error handling issues
• Routing improvements
• Bugs
• Feature requests and suggestions
• Anything you think might benefit the repo

Do bear in mind this is primarily a one-man project at the moment. If you have an idea and it's not on the roadmap, it may be better to submit a PR yourself. However if you have an idea for something but you're having trouble implementing it yourself, feel free to reach out!

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