Circa

Slowly and painfully, but we’re getting somewhere! I’ve started implementing the backend. Couldn’t hold myself back anymore, the UI can wait x3 I chose the Actix + SeaORM + JWT middleware way of doing this, because I’ve never used Actix or SeaORM before, and have heard good things about them from my friends! I have to agree that it’s an amazing stack: everything’s structured, modularized, but still monolithic in nature (microservices are eww). I am also having a blast learning all the cool Rust-native mechanisms that these offer.

The unusual concept of this app (it’s ephemeral nature, no passwords, etc.) is starting to pose a real challenge, and so many problems are beginning to arise QwQ But I know I will get through no matter what!! Even if I don’t do them the best way, it’ll be an invaluable learning experience!!! hopefully x3

Currently implemented a basic user module and authentication scaffolding. At the moment I’m in the process of laying out documentation that will (hopefully…) help me conceptualize roles and permissions, because they’ve become quite a mess… (there’s still a placeholder Clown role 😭). So yeah, goals for the near future: brainstorm the correct auth roles, add a way to add “label roles” (the ones you see, but which don’t really do anything else x3), figure out a way to auth without spoofing other users (I’ve been thinking about a challenge-response kind of thing, like the YubiKey, but I’ll cross that bridge when I get there x3). That’s a lot, but hopefully these will be done soon-ish™

Also there are some tests!!! (they’re already outdated and failing because of the jwt auth and role thingy 🥀)