What is lemmy built with?
lemmy is a Rust repo built with Actix Web and Tokio. It stores its data in moka and Postgres, reaches it with diesel, diesel-async, diesel-derive-newtype, and diesel_migrations, signs people in with bcrypt, jsonwebtoken, and totp-rs, makes its content with html-to-markdown-rs, html2text, infer, and lettre, deploys with tracing, prometheus, reqwest-tracing, tracing-actix-web, and tracing-subscriber, and uses tokio-postgres and tokio-postgres-rustls. It has 82,862 written lines, with 19 test files.
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Backend
The base 1
- Actix Web170 files
Data 4
- Postgres2 files · crates/diesel_utils/src/connection.rs, line 186
- moka5 files
- tokio-postgres
- tokio-postgres-rustls
Data access 4
diesel138 files
diesel_migrations1 file
- diesel-async70 files
- diesel-derive-newtype2 files
Sign-in 3
- bcrypt4 files
- jsonwebtoken1 file
- totp-rs1 file
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