Zingat

Pastebin like app in rust

Securely share texts on the internet with password protection and expiry date.

Local Installation

• Install Rust
• Clone the Repository
• Setup Database
  • Install SQLX with cargo install sqlx-cli
  • sqlx database setup
• For Web Interface
  • cargo run --bin httpd
• For Command Line Interface
  • cargo run --bin clipclient

  • Zingat API Client
    
    USAGE:
        clipclient --api-key <api-key> [addr] <SUBCOMMAND>
    
    FLAGS:
        -h, --help       Prints help information
        -V, --version    Prints version information
    
    OPTIONS:
            --api-key <api-key>
    
    ARGS:
        <addr>     [env: ZINGAT_ADDR=]  [default: http://127.0.0.1:8000]
    
    SUBCOMMANDS:
        get
        help      Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
        new
        update
    

Tech Stack

• Rust
• SQLX
• Rocket
• Tokio

Nuggets for devs

• Instead of logging each view (hit) directly into the database, we defer these operations into separate threads. This allows us to batch multiple hits into a single database commit, significantly improving performance and reducing contention on the database.