End to End Encrypted messages

With the end of this assignment, I archived the project. The other main contributor Déodat Père has forked the repo, you can find it here: https://github.com/deodat-pere/e2eemsgs

Run using docker-compose

WARNING: the default docker-compose.yaml is for dev only, you should use the docker-compose.prod.yaml to test the website in its "production" build.

By default it downloads a prebuilt image to avoid the need for building which can take some time (rust is involved).

docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yaml up -d # Add `--build` to force rebuilding it

The site should be available on http://localhost:8000.

Compiling the project

Frontend

Requirements:

• Node.js (v23 should work with v20 as well)
• Rust (v1.85)
  • Install rust with rustup: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
  • Install the wasm32-unknown-unknown target with rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
  • Install wasm-pack with cargo install wasm-pack

Run the frontend:

cd frontend

# Compile argon2wasm (a precompiled output is included in the repo to avoid the need for touching Rust)
cd argon2wasm
npm run argon2wasm # Run on each update to the argon2wasm module

# Install dependencies for the frontend
npm install

# Run the frontend
npm run start

# Or build it for production
npm run build

Beware, frontend types are automatically generated from the backend types on startup. They are not autoreloaded. When you modify a type on the backend, you should restart your frontend.

Backend

Requirements:

• python3.12
• pip
• venv

Run the backend:

# Start required services
docker compose up -d

cd backend

# Create and enter virtual env
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
python3 -m pip install -r ./requirements.txt

# Run the frontend
python3 -m main --reload