Clicky

endpoint	method	body	response
/	GET	none	plaintext number
/	POST	plaintext number in the range 0-500	plaintext number

Building

A generic release build of the server can be obtained with cargo build --release. In order to build the server for the current machine, set the RUSTFLAGS variable:

$ RUSTFLAGS="-Ctarget-cpu=native" cargo build --release
$ ./target/release/clicky

Saving the count

A persistent counter backend(s) may be selected and enabled at compile time using cargo features. For example, in order to use the file backend, use the following command:

$ cargo build --release --features=backend-file

File backend

Periodically saves the counter to a text file.

Cargo Feature
backend-file

Env Variable	Description	Default
CLICKY_COUNTER_FILE	Path to the file that should store the number of clicks.	clicky.txt
CLICKY_SYNC_FREQUENCY	See humantime::parse_duration for supported formats	1s