Centix

File hosting microservice(s) that include a elegant frontend built using ASP.NET 6 & a backend using Rust 1.67. Provides an easy way to share videos and images across the web (Such as streamable or youtube but self-hosted!).

Stability

• Do not use the frontend in production (The current state of the frontend is unfinished).
• The backend is pretty much complete and stable including the database so no need to migrate sled databases.

Frontend pictures

General Information

• The backend & frontend are independent from each other allowing modularity between them such as a completely different frontend.

Backend

• A single backend centix instance can handle multiple domains e.g. (exampleA.com/HilrvkpJ/ & exampleB.com/HilrvkpJ/). Both will serve the same files & accounts but can be accessed through either domain vice versa.

Analytics (Optional / Noninvasive)

The analytics are meant to be a tool to the administrator of the instance not for me to collect data. Open source analytic's by Tom Draper.

• The backend (Rocket.rs) is using the official library
• The frontend (ASP.NET) is using a custom unofficial middleware to interact with the api!

Analytics Setup

• Goto https://www.apianalytics.dev/ and make a free api key!
• Add the apikey to both the frontend & backend configuration files & restart!
• It should append data to the dashboard @ https://www.apianalytics.dev/api-key-here

Rust crate dependencies

• Utoipa / Swagger (Api)
• Rocket (Web)
• Sled (Database)
• Api-Analytics (Analytics)

Buildable on Rust >=1.67.0

Running the backend

git clone https://github.com/EthoIRL/Centix
cd ./Centix/backend/
cargo run --release

Swagger interface should be accessible at localhost:8000/swagger/

Frontend setup

The frontend must point to a Centix Backend instance however it can still run without a backend just with no functionality. (In case the backend goes down abruptly)

• First make sure to run at least once to generate the configuration file!
• Find the configuration file and add the address to your backend instance (e.g. "BackendApiUri": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/api")

Dotnet minimum supported version

• Dotnet 6 / ASP.NET 6

Running the frontend

git clone https://github.com/EthoIRL/Centix
cd ./Centix/frontend/
dotnet run

Configuration

Since comments in json are not supported most can be found inside the program itself.

• Backend configuration comments
• Frontend configuration comments

NOTE

This is similar to my previous project (https://github.com/StrateimTech/Open-MediaServer) which is an all-in-one solution hosting both the backend and frontend in the same application. Oh and it's completely stable for production use (I use it).