I sold you on some additional functionality for catscii last chapter, and we got caught up in private registry / docker shenanigans, so, now, let's resume web development as promised.

We kinda left the locat crate stubby, it doesn't actually do any IP to location lookups. It doesn't even have a dependency on a crate that do that.

Our catscii program does everything we want it to do, except that it's a command-line application rather than a web server. Let's fix that.

The documentation for the axum crate tells us how to make a basic web server, and we honestly don't need much more than that.

So let's add axum:

amos@miles:~/catscii$ cargo add axum@0.6
    Updating crates.io index
      Adding axum =0.6 to dependencies.
             Features:
             + form
             + http1
             + json
             + matched-path
             + original-uri
             + query
             + tokio
             + tower-log
             - __private_docs
             - headers
             - http2
             - macros
             - multipart
             - w

In 2020, I switched from a static site generator to something homemade.

And, as tradition commands, I did a whole write-up about it.

Since writing articles and making videos is now my full-time occupation, I took some time to upgrade futile, my server software, to the latest and greatest the Rust ecosystem has to offer.