Risso - a comment server for static websites

Risso is a Rust port of Isso, a self-hosted comment server. The name, obviously, is a combination of "rust" and "isso" (which is itself an acronym).

This is my playground to learn Rust and experiment web application development with the Rust ecosystem.

Risso is not yet functional. It compiles successfully, but is still very much a work in progress.

It is composed of several sub-projects:

• risso_api is the heart of the system, providing the APIs as a set of functions, independent of the web environment. This separation allows to easily experiment with various web frameworks or even with serverless front-ends.

• risso_actix exposes risso_api as an http service using actix-web.

• risso_admin is empty for now, and is meant to be the admin front-end to moderate comments. To go full Rust, it will be target WebAssembly using Yew, a React-inspired front-end framework.

Components & features

Risso is the aggregation of many great crates from the Rust ecosystem. Rust comes with "batteries excluded", with a great but minimal standard library. Finding good batteries is key to be productive. Risso uses, among others:

• web framework: actix
• data validation: validator
• database access / ORM: diesel
• thread pools: tokio-threadpool
• structured logs: slogs
• metrics: prometheus
• date calculations: chrono
• futures for asynchronous programming (until it's built into the standard lib)
• serialization/deserialization to about any format: serde
• handling configurations: config
• error handling: failure
• markdown parsing & rendering: pulldown-cmark
• html parsing & sanitization: html5ever & ammonia
• smtp client: lettre

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.