Rain

An extremely minimalist video delivery platform made with React and Rust.

I made this project in order to improve my Rust skills, but the code is too messy and inefficient. Possibly at some time I'll do a rewrite with Warp and Solid (or Leptos), with a better base and using Libav rather than spawning FFmpeg commands. Anyway, I'm proud of it and the server can handle any kind of request without crashing.

Technologies

Frontend

• Language: TypeScript
• Libs: React, Vite, React HLS Player
• Style: Tailwind
• HTTP: Axios

Backend

• Language: Rust
• Libs: Axum, Tokio, Tower HTTP, UUID, Serde
• Protocols: HLS, HTTP 1.1
• Video: FFMPEG, FFMPEG Thumbnailer

Getting started

To start using Rain you need to install certain programs and build it.

Configuration

Before build Rain, you need to configure server.toml

• In server.toml set the port and the file limit (in bytes)

ip = [0, 0, 0, 0]
port = 3000
file_limit = 10_000_000_000 # In bytes

Docker

To use docker, run the following commands.

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/gatomod/rain && cd rain

# Build Dockerfile
docker build -t gatomo/rain:latest .

# Run the container
# - Choose a port. 80 is the default one
# - Volumes are used to preserve data. Choose a path
docker run --name rain -p 80:80 -v /route/to/store/cdn:/server/cdn gatomo/rain

Manual build

Prerequisites

• FFmpeg
• FFmpeg Thumbnailer
• Rust and Cargo
• Node.js and Yarn

If you have all installed, update all to latest versions (not required but recommended).

Building

Run the following command to build server and client

# build client
cd client && yarn build

# build server
cd server && cargo build --release

Run

Run the server

cd server && cargo run --release

API Endpoints

• / - GET Web
• /assets/:asset - GET Web assets
• /api - API endpoints
  • /cdn - Video delivery (HLS)
    • / - POST upload multipart
    • /:uuid/video.m3u8 - GET M3U8 file
    • /:uuid/video#.ts - GET Video segments
  • /data - Video data (JSON)
    • / - GET All UUID videos
    • /:uuid - GET Video data
  • /thumbnail - Get thumbnails (PNG)
    • /lg/:uuid - GET Large
    • /sm/:uuid - GET Small

License

Rain is licensed under the GPL-3 license.

Usage

There are some security and performance issues, so is recommended to personal use at home or testing.

Contribute

🥳 Any PR is welcome! Is a small project, so the guideline is to follow the code style and not make insane purposes.

Links

• Donate (via PayPal)

Gátomo - AGPL-3 License