wordfinder

Trying out deployment via Railway and Leapcell.

Verdict: Railway better for me. 1) closer datacentre, quicker app. 2)nicer interface and not garish appearance. That said if I was in the US, leapcell was easy enough to set up and get going so I'd give it a go for a while.

Railway: EU deployed 30-60ms for me (I'm europe) https://wordfind-production.up.railway.app/

Leapcell: slower e.g. 150-200ms US East or Tokyo servers. https://wordfind-leshec290-i6w2gi13.leapcell.dev/

Web app: Crossword / scrabble word finder learning webproject

• Demo mode generates random tiles: then finds largest, highest score and valid words
• Search for words in a dictionary of 300k words
• Play a game to find words from random letters/tiles
• Find anagrams of words

Not 100% finished but functions enough as intended

Website

• Wordfinder (https://wordfinder.shuttleapp.rs)

Todo:

• Favicon. What is the right way to do this?
• Experiment with loops in templates
• Figure how to deploy with shuttle. Edit Shuttle closed down.
• Make some notes for later
• error handling and testing etc
• add an about and contact for new words

For another day...

• add a high score leaderboard for the games
• add a pop over if you click on a word to show meaning of word, there is a nice dictionary API for that

Project tools: 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) - disabled
• ~~Deployed via shuttle.rs on free tier (https://www.shuttle.rs/). Edit: closed/deprecated.

HTMX Example app:

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

Thanks to:

• CodeScope Youtuber for inspiring me to have a go deploying a web app with his example of using HTMX and Rust.
• Source code (https://gitlab.com/codescope-reference/rustmx)
• This site is based on Guardian coding challenges (https://github.com/guardian/coding-exercises)
• Note uses text file with approx 300k words
• Not an offical set of Scrabble words or authority on valids words

Screenshot:

Install:

If you want to mess around with it...

• Terminal git clone https://github.com/leshec/wordfind.git
• Need Rust installed, comes with Cargo package manager, from terminal curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
• Terminal cargo build
• Site runs locally on your machine e.g. via 127.0.0.1:8080