Igniter is a Rocket.rs fairing for a better frontend development experience. Igniter let's you launch your frontend dev environment when starting your rocket application.

We currently support NPM and Yarn as CLIs for interaction with your frontend application with hopes to expand to Ember and Vue coming shortly.

Add the crate as a dependency to your project:

cargo install rocket_igniter

Once the crate is installed you will need to include CliCommand and Engine to configure the desired CLI and start the engine on application start:

extern crate rocket_igniter;

use rocket_igniter::engine::{CliCommand, Engine};

Create a new Engine by passing it the desired CLI enum:

Engine::new(CliCommand::NPM)

Attach the create engine to your application as a fairing:

fn main() {
    rocket::ignite()
        .mount(
            "/",
            routes![hello_world],
        )
        .attach(Engine::new(CliCommand::NPM))
        .launch();
}

Start your rocket application and see your development server startup too!

Igniter only runs when in the development environment. If the Rocket environment is configured to be Stage or Production Igniter will get out of your way and happily do nothing!

Igniter has default configurations that come out of the box. By default igniter expects your frontend application code to exist under the ./app directory. If you want your frontend application code to exist elsewhere you can override this by setting the igniter_app_dir key in your Rocket.toml file under the [development] heading. For instance if you wanted to place your code under a directory named myApp the configuration would look like this:

[development]
igniter_app_dir = "./myApp"

On application startup Igniter will run the start script in your package.json. Along with the code location this script can be overridden by configuration in Rocket.toml. If your application runs it's development environment by running a different script such as local instead of start your settings would look like this:

[development]
igniter_arg = "local"

This will run npm run local under the hood instead of npm run start.

If your application has it's code under ./app and runs the development server with start then you don't have to touch any configuration!

As this project is just maintained by me we don't have an offical gitter or discourse. If you run into any issues or have any feature requests please open an issue in the repository! It would be greatly appreciated if you use the issue templates when opening a new issue! Thank you in advance!

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Licensed under either of these:

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

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