🦀 Rusty Relay

🚀 What is Rusty Relay?

Rusty Relay is a simple relay server that can forward webhooks and websites to a local machine. It's a simplified version of the popular ngrok, but instead focuses on being simple and self hostable and purely made for development.

✨ Features

• Relay webhooks: Forwards webhooks to a local machine.
• Relay website: Serve your newly build React application locally and give a public URL to anyone in the world.
• Secure: Supports TLS for encrypted communication between server and client.
• No account setup: Clients do not need accounts to connect to the server.
• Low memory usage: The server (in docker) only uses like 4MB memory.

🏁 Getting Started

Running the Server (docker)

The preferred way of running the server is via docker and behind a reverse proxy that handles TLS certificates so the client can connect securely via websockets.

# a connection token is generated on startup which the client needs to connect (see logs)

docker run ghcr.io/larscom/rusty-relay:latest

Installing the Server (alternative method)

Using cargo

cargo install rusty-relay-server

Or simply download the server binary for your platform: https://github.com/larscom/rusty-relay/releases

Running the Server (alternative method)

Just run the binary.

Running the Server in HTTPS mode

By default, the server starts in HTTP mode only.

If you want to run the server in HTTPS mode instead you need to provide the server certificate and private key. If the server detects those files it will automatically run in HTTPS mode.

With docker:

docker run \
  -v ./cert.pem:/app/certs/cert.pem \
  -v ./key.pem:/app/certs/key.pem \
  ghcr.io/larscom/rusty-relay:latest

Without docker:

Create a certs folder next to the binary with 2 files:

• cert.pem
• key.pem

Or change the environment variables where the server should look for those files.

Installing the Client

🍺 Homebrew

# add tap
brew tap larscom/tap

# install binary
brew install larscom/tap/rusty_relay_client

📦 Cargo

cargo install rusty-relay-client

Or simply download the client binary for your platform: https://github.com/larscom/rusty-relay/releases

Running the Client

Usage: rusty-relay-client [OPTIONS] --server <SERVER> --token <TOKEN> --target <TARGET>

Options:
  -s, --server <SERVER>    The rusty-relay-server hostname e.g: localhost:8080 or my.server.com [env: RUSTY_RELAY_SERVER=]
      --token <TOKEN>      The connection token generated on rusty-relay-server [env: RUSTY_RELAY_TOKEN=]
      --target <TARGET>    Target URL to local webserver e.g: http://localhost:3000/api/webhook [env: RUSTY_RELAY_TARGET=]
  -i, --insecure           Connect to rusty-relay-server without TLS
  -c, --ca-cert <CA_CERT>  Path to CA certificate (PEM encoded) [env: RUSTY_RELAY_CA_CERT=]
  -v, --version            Show version info
  -h, --help               Print help

Running the Client against the test server

You can connect to the test server to see how it works, feel free to use it.

rusty-relay-client \
  --server rusty-relay.larscom.nl \
  --target http://localhost:8080 \
  --token pSyyI54kOhq8yZcV7YOEMKFw

⚛️ Serve React app locally

If you want to serve your react application locally, you first have to build it with vite e.g. npm run build and then use a simple webserver like http-server to serve it.

For example:

# install http-server globally via npm
npm install -g http-server

# serve your freshly build react app on port 8080
http-server ./dist --port 8080

Then run the client

rusty-relay-client \
  --server my.server.com \
  --target http://localhost:8080 \
  --token my_token

🌍 Environment variables

Server environment variables

Client environment variables

If you set the RUSTY_RELAY_SERVER, RUSTY_RELAY_TOKEN, RUSTY_RELAY_TARGET variables you can use the client without arguments.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.