Into the Rust Jungle: Live Coding Pexels API Integration and Fly.io Deployment!

🔗 Connect with Me

Twitch Stream: https://twitch.tv/coreyja

Support My Work: https://github.com/sponsors/coreyja

Project Repo: https://github.com/coreyja/moodboards

🚀 Stream Highlights In this engaging coding session, we tackled some exciting milestones for our MoodBoard app:

• Integrated with the Pexels API for an abundant image collection.

• Redid Database Modeling to account for code evolution

• Successfully deployed the app to Fly.io.

• Automated CI/CD using GitHub Actions for efficient deployment.

🤔 Why Pexels, Not Pinterest? We initially eyed Pinterest's API, but it was out of reach. Lucky for us, Pexels stepped in with its free and high-quality images. Discover why Pexels was our silver lining!

👨‍💻 Deep Dive into the Code Join me, Corey, as I navigate the intricacies of Rust and Wasm in building our Moodboard app. From database caching to API pagination, I've covered it all. Dive in to see how I transformed ideas into code!

🔧 Tech Breakdown

Rust Ecosystem: Leveraging powerful libraries like axum for web framework, sqlx for async database operations, maud for HTML templating, and reqwest for HTTP requests.

SQLite Integration: Adding persistence to our app with robust database management.

Pexels API Magic: Fetching image collections seamlessly with API integration.

Docker & GitHub Actions: Streamlining the deployment process for consistent and reliable updates.

🔜 What's Next? Stay tuned! We've got big plans for user modeling, database enhancements, and a fresh new look for creating moodboards.