📋 Cut

URL, snippet, and file sharing with ease. All content shared via Cut is ephemeral, only in-memory storage is used.

Features

• URL shortener
• Snippet editor with code highlighter
• Ephemeral file sharing
• Set expiry to shared content (with 'Burn on Read')
• Raw content endpoint (302 redirect, text response, or Content-Disposition download, respectively)

Services

The application comes in two parts:

Name	Code Name	Stack
Back-end	cut-be	Rust, Actix Web, Redis
Front-end	cut-fe	TypeScript, Vue.js

Develop

cut-be

To ease development, cargo-watch is used to live-reload the application. Install the tool as documented.

To begin developing, simply enter the sub-directory and run the development server:

$ cd cut-be
$ cargo watch -x 'run'

cut-fe

Populate .env.development with the required credentials.

To begin developing, simply enter the sub-directory and run the development server:

$ cd cut-fe
$ yarn
$ yarn serve

Deploy

cut-be, and cut-fe are containerized and pushed to Docker Hub. They are tagged based on their application name and version, e.g. daystram/cut:be or daystram/cut:be-v2.0.1.

To run cut-be, run the following:

$ docker run --name cut-be --env-file ./.env -p 8080:8080 -d daystram/cut:be

And cut-fe as follows:

$ docker run --name cut-fe -p 80:80 -d daystram/cut:fe

Dependencies

The following are required for cut-be to function properly:

• Redis

Their credentials must be provided in their respective services' configuration file.

Helm Chart

To deploy to a Kubernetes cluster, Helm charts could be used. Add the repository:

$ helm repo add daystram https://charts.daystram.com
$ helm repo update

Ensure you have the secrets created for cut-be by providing the secret name in values.yaml, or creating the secret from a populated .env file (make sure it is on the same namespace as cut installation):

$ kubectl create secret generic secret-cut-be --from-env-file=.env

And install cut:

$ helm install cut daystram/cut

You can override the chart values by providing a values.yaml file via the --values flag.

Pre-release and development charts are accessible using the --devel flag. To isntall the development chart, provide the --set image.tag=dev flag, as development images are deployed with the suffix dev.

Docker Compose

For ease of deployment, the following docker-compose.yml file can be used to orchestrate the stack deployment:

version: "3"
services:
  cut-be:
    image: daystram/cut:be
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    env_file:
      - /path_to_env_file/.env
    restart: unless-stopped
  cut-fe:
    image: daystram/cut:fe
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    restart: unless-stopped
  redis:
    image: redis:6.0-alpine
    expose:
      - 6379
    volumes:
      - /path_to_redis_data:/data
    restart: unless-stopped

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.