proudmuslim-dev / abode

Backend and frontend for the Traveler's Abode website.

TODO

• CSRF is already handled by samesite=strict
• Read up on CORS - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
• CSP (Content Security Policy) - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP

Traveler's Abode

About

Backend and Frontend for Traveler's Abode.

Naming

عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ قَالَ أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِمَنْكِبِي فَقَالَ كُنْ فِي الدُّنْيَا كَأَنَّكَ غَرِيبٌ، أَوْ عَابِرُ سَبِيلٍ

Abdullah bin Umar said, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) took hold of my shoulder and said, 'Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler.'"

Sahih al-Bukhari 6416

Inspiration

Allama Iqbal (رح) wrote this in the context of the situation of the Muslims in India, however its words are still extremely relevant today.

Tech Stack

Backend

• Rocket - Webserver
• Prisma - ORM
• MySQL - Database
  • This does not matter at all, I can swap to another database simply by changing the datasource in backend/prisma/schema.prisma. From a developer POV, the actual database doesn't matter because Prisma provides an abstraction layer independent of it.
• JWT - Authentication
  • Here, we use the jsonwebtoken crate. Implementation details can be found in the backend/src/routes/utils/jwt.rs file.

Frontend

• Rocket - Webserver
• Tera - Templates
  • It is used with rocket_dyn_templates for easy integration with Rocket.
• Reqwest - HTTP client (for querying the backend)