API Client boilerplate template

💡 🏗️ A boilerplate API client template for Rust API client wrappers

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About

This is a template repository that sets the basic code and infrastructure for a repository/solution in Rust to create an API client wrapper (sometimes known as SDK).

Note

A appveyor.yml file is included for AppVeyor CI pipeline. AppVeyor is free for open-source projects. For closed-source projects, consider a paid subscription or other CI tools (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TeamCity).

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Instructions

Warning

The automated process listed below now supports Windows and Linux/MAC environments.

Automated process

• Click on the green button USE THIS TEMPLATE.
• Give a name to your new project/repository.
• Clone your newly created repository to your machine.
• Execute/run the file initial-setup.bat or initial-setup.ps1 and follow the instructions on the prompt/terminal.

Manual process

• Click on the green button USE THIS TEMPLATE.
• Give a name to your new project/repository.
• Clone your newly created repository to your machine.
• Delete this file (README.md) and rename README.template.md to README.md.
• Change the appveyor.yml with your tokens (use secure tokens) or use your preferred CI tool (Circle CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Team City, Azure DevOps).
• Change the package name in the Cargo.toml.
• Fix in the README.md the path of the badges. (change all {username}/{repo} tokens with your own data).
• Add to README.md usage instructions of your client/SDK.
• Update _config.yml with project details (github.io docs website).

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License

Licensed under: MIT license (LICENSE or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

This will also be your project's LICENSE, but you can change it to another one that suits your needs.