stump VS crates.io

If you’re into comics, digital books, or the self hosted space in general, I’ve been working on Stump. It’s mostly just me working on it during the weekends, with a few contributors every once in a while.

So I just started self-hosting my ePUB library and was doing some research on clients. Since Calibre/Calibre-Web doesn't work in my setup for various reasons I have Kavita and Stump installed as my library scanner/reader apps.

I am currently using a File Browser instance for this. That's really easy to setup and it simply uses the directory structure. This works for me for the moment, but I am waiting for a first stable release of Stump App, which also follows a directory first approach. But unfortunately, it will take a while until their first stable release for production.

i’m working on an open source digital book/comics server called Stump (https://github.com/aaronleopold/stump)

if rust+web dev is your thing i have a project i've been hoping to get some contributors for https://github.com/aaronleopold/stump

Yep! develop branch now has one, and the few days dated demo preview also has

Additionally, if you're looking to dip your toes into a project that uses some of this technology stack, consider contributing to my personal project Stump - A free and open source comic book server with OPDS support, written in Rust and React.

Rust has a rich ecosystem of frameworks and libraries that let you read, parse, and manipulate text files, interact with cloud services and databases, and perform any other job that your project's development workflow may require. And because of its strong typing and tight memory management, you are much less likely to write programs that behave unexpectedly in production.

All the code discussed in this article can be accessed through this repository. For integration with existing projects consider using keyword_extraction crate available on crates.io.

So, be sure to double-check your critical libraries and be sure their alternatives exist in the Rust ecosystem. There’s a good chance the crates you need are available in Rust's crates.io repository.

The previous section was very simple, this section is also very simple but introduces us to cargo which is Rust's package manager, as a JS dev my mind goes straight to NPM.

Now, there has to be a place where all these packages come from. Similar to npmjs registry, where all node packages are registered, stored and retrieved, Rust also has something called crates.io where many helpful packages and dependencies are registered.

Before proceeding, let's check https://crates.io/, the official Rust package registry.

The most thrilling aspect has been the joy of writing the backend. It's like every struct, enum, and method in Rust forms this interconnected Multiverse of code , which you can see in crates.io which is best Documentation experience I Ever Had.

5. Crates.io

When using crates from eg. crates.io, and also things like std and core

Vendoring your packages was very tedious to even remotely get to work with Cargo. I spent a very long time getting Cargo to work together with cargo-local-registry. We vendor crates from crates.io and a custom internal registry.