adding support for tera templating

website/src/main.rs

@@ -1,25 +1,59 @@
 // This client code really just serves as the url router for the main website where we describe what the project is about
 #![feature(proc_macro_hygiene, decl_macro, plugin)]
 //#[macro_use] extern crate serde_derive;
+#[macro_use] extern crate serde_derive;
 #[macro_use] extern crate rocket;
 extern crate rocket_contrib;
 
+use rocket_contrib::templates::Template;
 use rocket::response::NamedFile;
 use std::io;
 
+// Purely for backend purposes
+#[derive(Serialize)]
+struct PageAttrs {
+    og_title: &'static str,
+    og_type: &'static str,
+    og_desc: &'static str,
+    og_url: &'static str,
+    og_image: &'static str,
+
+    // General settings
+    favicon: &'static str, // path to the favicon
+
+    // Branding things
+    brand_url: &'static str, // default is freechat.io - clean url of domain
+    brand_motto: &'static str,
+    brand_quip: &'static str
+}
+
 macro_rules! page {
     ($type:expr, $item:expr) => {
         // TODO: verify against directory traversals
-        NamedFile::open(format!("staic/{}/{}", $type, $item))
+        NamedFile::open(format!("static/{}/{}.{}", $type, $item, $type))
     }
 }
 
 // Pages themselves
 
 #[get("/")]
-fn homepage() ->  io::Result<NamedFile> {
+fn homepage() -> Template {
     // Be sure to include some kind of prompt
-    page!("html", "index")
+    // TODO: read this type of data from a config or provide some function/macro that 
+    // does that for us so that we don't hardcode these values in like ever
+    let context = PageAttrs {
+        og_title: "Freechat",
+        og_type: "Decentralized Chat",
+        og_desc: "Privacy and Freedom Respecting Chat Platform",
+        og_url: "freechat.io",
+        og_image: "https://images.pexels.com/photos/146071/pexels-photo-146071.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=750&w=1260",// recall this is meant to be a path to the favicon
+
+        favicon: "https://images.pexels.com/photos/146071/pexels-photo-146071.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=750&w=1260",
+        brand_url: "freechat.io",
+        brand_motto: "Freedom respecting chat platform",
+        brand_quip: "asdf",
+    };
+    Template::render("index", &context)
 }
 // Handles logging in a user to their home instance
 #[get("/login")]
@@ -49,5 +83,6 @@ fn main() {
         .mount("/static", routes![
             static_css, static_js
         ])
+        .attach(Template::fairing())
         .launch();
 }