Hyde

This project is intended as a Content Management System (CMS) for Jekyll and Astro static sites. It is meant to enable users to edit a markdown site hosted with Github Pages from a web browser. Hyde also provides a permission management interface for multi-user support, integrating with Discord.

It is composed of a frontend written in Svelte, and a backend written in Rust.

For more documentation, please check the docs/ folder at the root of the repo.

Running

The Hyde executable requires the hyde-data folder to be present in the same directory. See: Populating hyde-data.

To load a config file from a different location, use the -c/--config switch:

./hyde -c ./path/to/.toml

This will ignore any .toml config inside hyde-data.

Developing

We accept contributions, and we'll happily mentor individuals through their contributions. Feel free to ask for help, either through Github, or in the r/TechSupport discord server.

Development is supported on Windows (With some caveats), MacOS, and Linux.

Installing tools

To build the backend, you need to have the Rust toolchain installed (see https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install).

We currently aim to support the latest stable version of Rust. Once that's installed, cargo will automatically download and install the appropriate dependencies for the project when it's first built. The source code for the backend is located in ./backend, so navigate there

To build the frontend, you'll need to have the appropriate Javascript tooling installed (See https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager). This means Node and npm. We aim to use the latest stable version of Node.js (24 at the time of writing).

Populating hyde-data

To keep things organized, the config file and other essential data (SQLite database, Github private key) are stored in a folder in the same directory that the code is run from. This directory is relative to the running process's current directory.

If you're running hyde via local development, place the hyde-data folder in backend instead.

Hyde expects:

• hyde-data/config.toml file with all configuration options. ./default.toml is the example config file, copy it to hyde-data/config.toml. Hyde will accept any .toml file in that directory, but config.toml is a good choice.
• hyde-data/key.pem, the private key linked to your Github Application deployment.
• hyde-data/data.db - If not created, this file will be automatically created and stores permissions and user account info.

Running the project in development mode

You can run the backend with cargo run from the backend folder. This will compile and launch a debug executable, listening on port 8080.

Once the backend is running, in a separate terminal window, run npm run dev from the frontend folder to start the frontend, listening on localhost:5173, viewable from your web browser.

It's recommended that you configure your rust-analyzer installation to run clippy instead of check. See https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-to-use-clippy-in-vs-code-with-rust-analyzer/41881/2 for a guide, set Check On Save: Command to clippy. At the very least, run cargo clippy before committing to make sure your code passes lint.

Building

Production

Build scripts exist for Windows (./build.ps1) and *nix (./build.sh). This will detail what a production build looks like for hyde.

The written build scripts should assemble the final product into ./target, consisting of:

• hyde(.exe): The actual executable, built by running cargo run --release. The generated executable is copied from ./backend/target/release/[HYDE-EXECUTABLE-NAME] to ./target/hyde(.exe). This executable will serve the frontend files stored in web, so there's only a single process running. It listens on port 8080 by default, but this is configurable via the -p/--port command line option.
• web directory: Svelte is configured to compile the frontend into a collection of static files, which can be generated by running npm run build from ./frontend. Those are copied from ./target/frontend/build/ into ./target/web/. In that directory, you'll find the relevant HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and any assets used on the site. Svelte is also configured to include Brotli and Gzipped versions of those files to reduce bundle size.

There are two ways to copy hyde-data folder from ./backend/ to ./target. First is to manually move the folder, second is to use the build scripts to do it for you:

• Linux: build.sh -c <path_to_hyde_data>

• Windows build.ps1 -C <path_to_hyde_data>

Behaviors can differ between development and production builds. Notably, in release mode, the application requires https to function.

Hyde's logging can be configured by setting the RUST_LOG environment variable or using the -v/--verbosity command line flag. Possible values are: TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, and OFF.

On first start, Hyde will check if you have a git repository for your wiki at the relative folder ./repo. If it is not there, it will clone the repo based on the repo_url supplied in the .toml config. If it exists then it will pull upstream changes.

The final product can be found by navigating to http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.

Building a containerized version of the project

This does not require that you have language tooling installed (Rust, JavaScript), only requiring an OCI implementation of your choice.

Docker:

docker build -t hyde .

Podman:

podman build -t hyde .

Testing

To run the backend tests, navigate to ./backend, and run cargo test.

To run the frontend tests, navigate to ./frontend and run npm test, or npm test:watch for hot reload.