Description

Attempt to make a simple clone of Google Drive.

The main goal was to try HTMX with Rust backend.

Technologies used:

Frontend:

- HTMX
- Bootstrap CSS
- JavaScript (event handling)

Backend:

- Rust
- Actix-Web
- Handlebars (template rendering)

Building:

Raspberry Pi

Prerequisites

• cross installed
• Docker daemon running

Steps

1. Build custom docker image for cross tool to use by calling docker buildx build --platform linux/arm64 -t mydrive-raspberrypi-cross --load .
2. Run cross compilation RUSTFLAGS='-L /usr/aarch64-linux-gnu/lib/ -L /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/' cross build --release --target=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

Installation

1. Copy the target/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/my-drive to directory on Raspberry Pi.
2. Copy static directory to the same directory on Raspberry Pi.
3. Copy templates directory to the same directory on Raspberry Pi.
4. Create .env file in target directory on Raspberry Pi and put BASE_DIR=[path to base drive directory] in (e.g. echo "BASE_DIR=[path to base drive directory]" > .env).

ngrok tunneling

1. Build app with "ngrok" feature enabled.
2. Create ngrok-config.toml configuration from template and put it next to executable file.