Blip

A swag chat server and client written in Rust.

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust toolchain installed
• Optional: podman or docker for container builds

Build locally

From the repository root:

cargo build --package tcp-server --bin tcp-server
cargo build --package tcp-client --bin tcp-client

Run locally

Start the server:

cargo run --package tcp-server --bin tcp-server -- localhost:6666

Then start one or more clients in other terminals:

cargo run --package tcp-client --bin tcp-client -- localhost:6666

Container build with Podman

From the repository root:

podman build -f server/docker/Dockerfile . --target runtime -t blip-server

Run the container:

podman run --rm -p 6666:6666 blip-server

Or with compose:

podman compose -f compose.yml up

Then connect with the client as above.

Tests

Run the workspace tests with:

cargo test --workspace --all-targets