Cloud Storage System

Introduction

This project is a simple fullstack web application that lets you upload and download files from "the cloud".

It was made using TypeScript with Svelte on the frontend and Rust with Axum on the backend. It uses Postgres to store user data and Redis to store session data.

This project was made as an assignment. You can read more about it here.

Installation

This section will guide you through the installation process to deploy the application on your machine.

Prerequisites

Before starting with the installation, you need to make sure you have Node.js, npm as well as Rust installed on your machine.

You are also going to need docker and docker-compose to run the databases.

Once you have all the prerequisites installed, you can clone this repository and enter the project folder.

git clone https://github.com/MuttoniSamuele/cloud-storage-system
cd cloud-storage-system

Environment variables

Copy the .env.example file and rename it to .env.

cp .env.example .env

You can change the values of the variables in this file to suit your needs.

Installation

Now you can start the installation process.

First, start the databases with docker.

docker-compose up -d

Docker doesn't automatically load the database schema. You can do this by executing the following script.

./load-schema.sh

Next, run the following command to build the backend.

cargo build --release

While the code is compiling, you can build the frontend.

cd public
npm run build

This will create a public/dist folder with the static files of the frontend. You can choose to only keep this folder and delete the rest of the frontend files as they will no longer be needed.

After the compilation is done, you can go back to the root of the project and run the server.

To run the application, execute the following command.

cargo run --release

Alternatively, you can run the executable in the target/release/ folder.