CloudCord

This project uses discord as a form of cloud storage
It uses axum for the backend api, and react for the front end

Prerequisites

First of all you need to download rust, nodejs and finally you need to download postgresql and create a database using the psql shell, with the following command

Make the postgresql database

While in the psql shell run the following command

CREATE DATABASE databasename;

Note: Make sure to change the databasename to the name of the database you want it to be

Make the needed directories

And you also need to make a uploads and uploads/chunks directory with this command (works in linux, macos and windows)
First navigate to the directory of the repo

$ cd CloudCord

Then make the needed directories

mkdir uploads

mkdir uploads/chunks

Make a Secrets.toml

To keep stuff private, and easy to use, I decided to use a Secrets.toml
It fetches the data needed from there
So go ahead and make a Secrets.toml file in the root directory of the project It should have these fields

DATABASE_URL="postgresql://username:password@localhost:5432/databasename"
# The url is formatted like above
BOT_TOKEN="Your discord bot token"
CHANNEL_ID="Channel ID to upload the files to as a form of storage"

To run on linux, macos and windows

Run the backend

You can build and run it with two simple commands
First of all you need to change directory into the directory of the repository

$ cd CloudCord

Then you have to run the release build with this command

$ cargo run -- --release

Run the frontend

Open a new terminal
Then build and run it with three simple commands
First of all you need to change directory into the directory of the repo then the frontend directory

$ cd CloudCord/frontend

Then you have to install the dependancies and run the release build with this command

$ npm install

$ npm run build

After you've ran the release build, follow the instructions it gives
Note: if it gives an error, try installing the react-scripts dependency globally with this command

$ npm i -g react-scripts

To use it

Make sure you've set it up alright and have the backend and frontend running
Then Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:3000

To upload a file

To upload a file, first of all select if you want it the contents to be encrypted or not, by clicking on the checkbox
And also set the encryption key, can be any string smaller than 32 characters
Then go to the top right of the table, and click on the Choose File button
Once you've chosen the file you want to upload, click on the Upload File button

• Warning: Once you've clicked on the Upload File button, don't refresh the page, as it will interrupt the uploading process and might cause the files to be left in your uploads/chunks, which won't be good for our storage
  You'll know that the uploading process, when you'd either, see in the console for the backend Successfully sent files
  Or when you'd see the file you just uploaded, in the right side of the website where, the list of the uploaded files is at

To download a file

Go to the table, where you should see the list of uploaded files, and click on the Download File button, which is in the Actions column, it will then start processing the chunks by downloading them, and reassembling them
If the file is encrypted it should give you a popup where you enter the key to decrypt that file, and then click on the Download File button, and proceed how you normally would

• Warning: Again once you've clicked on the Download File button, don't refresh the page, for the same reasons stated in the To upload a file section

To delete a file

And finally, to delete a file, go to the same place you went to in the To download a file section, and this time click on the Delete File button, then it will delete the file from database, hence deleting it from the file list