Here are some projects I'm working on or have worked on.
Backend Development
This project is my completed take on Zero to Production in Rust by Luca Palmieri. I did it using the Axum web framework, instead of Actix Web. I deployed this project, for a time, on Railway, but took it down as I became increasingly nervous about having something less than amateurish exposed to the internet. I'm thinking about getting it going again...on Shuttle.
I'm a fan of using Shuttle's Service trait. It's more flexible and, in my opinion, makes a Shuttle project easier to reason about. I've created an opinionated template and am slowly evolving it as I think of more pieces that are useful to me. Using cargo-generate I can spin up a fresh project in no time and be on my way adding the good stuff.
I mess about with stuff so that you don't have to. Anyone in their right mind would build their API with Axum (or the other framework of your choice) and call it a day, but not me! I'm going nap-of-earth with Hyper and Tokio, just in case you want to see for yourself what not to do. I've managed to create a skeleton API and have turned it into a template of sorts. It's a mainly a learning ground for me, as I need to get my hands dirty.
I'm currently exploring Apache OpenDAL and it's ability to allow me to leverage Cloudflare R2 storage. I'm building an API for my developer blog, which will eventually serve to power a revised version of my blog. OpenDAL is excellent, and despite an initial learning curve hump, pretty straightforward to use.
Frontend Development
I don't want to be the billionth person learning React. I enjoy front end development with Rust and have been steadily picking up how to do things with Yew. I think, unfortunately, Yew is kinda dead and not being actively developed. Don't let that stop you though, it's mature enough for production and is a viable choice for front end development using Rust and WebAssembly. I've created a template which uses Axum to serve up a Yew frontend site.
Doing Things with Community Crates
Early in 2024, I developed a wierd obsession with the Nom crate. I tried to using late in 2023 while working through Shuttle's Christas Code Hunt. In typical fashion for me, I was way over my head, running before even crawling. I figured I'd start building out an API that returned the word count of a sentence handed to it. The project is not deployed, but I may yet return to it. There are precious few resources out there for mere mortals on how to use this crate.