Basicweb: Microsite experiments with Rust, Actix-Web, Diesel, Svelte and SQLite.

Note: this is not currently under active development.

This is a set of experiments with a variation of "microsites," small, self-contained front-end and back-end "sites" that are intended to be used alongside of one another in a larger project.

The idea was that most realworld sites can generally be broken down into these sub-components:

• min: basic, minimal starting template; hello world.
• basic: A single record, basic template.
• users: account, password reset, login, etc.
• board: a board, with a hierarchy of posts and replies.
• catalog: an item catalog and transactions
• events: events, with date, time and location
• galleries: a gallery structure
• locations: locations, using OpenStreetMap
• people: basic records for people and contacts (incomplete); not users.
• tags: tagging data structures

There are some examples of merging these sites into applications:

• app: A basic app skeleton, similar to min.
• app-gallery: A gallery app, merges app, users, galleries, and board. Intended for photoblogs, etc.
• app-biz (incomplete): merges app, users, galleries, board, locations, and catalog. Intended for a general business or store, that may have a blog and some galleries.

None of these are considered complete; they are intended to be modified in ways that will break modularity. For real projects, I would recommend one of the other Actix-Web starter app templates.

Takeaway:

• Thematic building-blocks are a very useful starting point; perhaps moreso than general-purpose frameworks.
• Composing projects was not that easy; for the most part, rust modules played nicely together, but JS and template dependencies should be managed differently. Possibly embedded into libraries as defaults using rust-embed or similar.