wordfind

Web app: Toy scrabble word finder

Generates random tiles: then finds largest, highest score and valid words.

Website

• Wordfind (https://wordfinder.shuttleapp.rs/wordfind)

Todo:

• Favicon. What is the right way to do this?
• Experiment with loops in templates
• Figure how to deploy with shuttle
• Use it to port some of my projects e.g. this one scrabble
• Make some notes for later
• maybe add styling in the layout rather than inline. Ugh no
• error handling and testing etc
• add some post requests e.g. add in your own letters
• gamify it with option to find as many words as you can with a given random set

Project: HTMX, Tera, Axum, Missing and Shuttle

• Web server: Rust with Axum (https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum)
• HTML templating engine: Tera (https://docs.rs/tera/latest/tera)
• Basic styling: Missing.style (https://missing.style/)
• HTMX (https://htmx.org/)
• Tera (https://keats.github.io/tera/docs/#getting-started)
• Hotreloading: Cargo-watch (https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch)
• Hotreloading: Tower-livereload (https://github.com/leotaku/tower-livereload)
• Deployed via shuttle.rs on free tier (https://www.shuttle.rs/)

HTMX Example app:

• Big Sky Software (https://github.com/bigskysoftware/contact-app)

Thanks to:

• CodeScope Youtuber for getting me started with HTMX and rust.
• Source code (https://gitlab.com/codescope-reference/rustmx)
• Based on Guardian coding challenges (https://github.com/guardian/coding-exercises)
• Note uses text file with approx 179k words. Less than official dictionary for Scrabble

Screenshot:

Install:

• if you want to take this and turn it into something else...and notes to self
• make sure you have rust installed. It comes with cargo the package manager
• see one-liner on (https://www.rust-lang.org/) install page: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
• clone this project: from terminal run git clone https://github.com/leshec/wordfind.git
• go to the cloned repo cd wordfind
• from terminal run cargo install cargo-shuttle so your system has the shuttle stuff
• from terminal run cargo shuttle run - may need a login api key via shuttle.rs. Just sign up to shuttle and it gives you an api key
• your system may do a pop up asking for permissions to access the network
• should be able to see the site running locally on your machine e.g. via 127.0.0.1:8000
• visit (https://www.shuttle.rs/) for more info, example and to deploy your own stuff