A demo blog post engine written in Rust, using Rocket and MongoDB

• Setup a new MongoDB cluster https://cloud.mongodb.com/ create a new database and obtain the rust connection string (under Database/Connect) example (mongodb+srv://<user>:<password>@XXXX.mongodb.net/myFirstDatabase?retryWrites=true&w=majority)

• Create a database rust_blog_engine

• Add a collection authorization containing authorized users id (Google user id)

{
    "_id": "116710526826489061000",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Nabil Hachicha"
}

• Add a collection blogs which will persist our blog posts entries.

• Setup a Google OAuth2 API and add the client_id and client_secret inside the Rocket.toml file.

• Start the engine using cargo run and providing the MongoDB connection string

MDB_URL="mongodb+srv://<user>:<password>@XXXX.mongodb.net/myFirstDatabase?retryWrites=true&w=majority" cargo run