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wow look its a web server. isnt that cool

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so. procedural macros anyone

hi! this is a (extremely extremely minimal) web server i made! (however this is still probably my biggest project in rust to date) i started with the template given by the rust book chapter 20, added minor error handling and a #[route] attribute proc macro and here we are :catsnug:

todos

• rework lazy_static integration boom done i just expanded the macro namually :peaceline:
• make sure everything is tidy (all generated imports qualified correctly, file stuff) should be question mark
  • move main.rs to outer crate and make this a lib done ! we have examples via cargo run --example <example_name> now :3
• fix where the import errors come from done! unless im missing other cases of this
• generally clean stuff up (code quality review)
  • check whether i actually need all those clones (im suspicious i do)
  • read up on how to actually do multithreaded stuff in rust and rework as needed (surely it wont be too much :clueless:) (god this got . so much worse when i tried to implement proper error handling :catplant:)
  • tidy up apis
    • generally just "should this be public" and "are my function signatures cool and based or cringe as hell"
• rework codegen in #[route] (im sure theres better ways to do everything i did)
  • just dicovered quote_spanned exists im sure its useful
• do something about error handling in HttpServer::listen done! you pass an ErrorHandler and aNotFoundHandler to HttpServer::new and if it errors it displays the page given by the ErrorHandler and if it can't find the requested route it displays the one given by the NotFoundHandler
  • however these are served at the route where the error happens
  • this may be undesirable potentially but idk how to make them take u to a designated endpoint so u have to live with it for now :goodvibes:
• add support for more actual web features
  • different request types
  • more fully-featured responses
  • serve other stuff than just bare html
• route trees? subroutes? routes with variable arguments??
  • more attribute macros oooohhh
• make errors in macros more descriptive
  • figure out and use proper spanned errors
• add all the cool stuff to my cargo.toml
  • like descriptions and docs and repo link n stuff
    • ohhhh fuc k. i have to write docs for everything :catresort:
• publish to crates.io!! (once ive got at least most of this)