Relay

A URL shortener built with NextJS and Rust

Features

• Shortens longer URLs into shorter (not) ones
• Tracks the amount of clicks each URLs have (account required)
• Add custom comments/descriptions/notes to each URL (account required)

Sign in/create an account with:

• Email, password, name
  • Passwords are hashed with bcrypt

Demo

• Web: https://relay.pepper.fyi

Self-host

Requirements

Cloud hosting:

• Docker

Local development:

• pnpm
• cargo
• postgres

Environment variables

Docker hosting:

POSTGRES_USER=
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=
POSTGRES_DB=

PORT=
DATABASE_URL=
SMTP_HOST=
SMTP_PORT=
SMTP_USER=
SMTP_PASSWORD=
JWT_SECRET=

BACKEND_URL=

Separate hosting:

Frontend env:

BACKEND_URL=

Backend env:

PORT=
DATABASE_URL=
SMTP_HOST=
SMTP_PORT=
SMTP_USER=
SMTP_PASSWORD=
JWT_SECRET=

Run with Docker

git clone https://github.com/0x5b62656e5d/relay.git
cd relay
cp .env.example .env

docker compose up

Local development

git clone https://github.com/0x5b62656e5d/relay.git
cd relay
cp .env.example.frontend ./frontend/.env
cp .env.example.backend ./backend/.env
cp .env.example .env

# backend
cd backend && cargo run

# frontend
pnpm i && pnpm dev

Stack

• Frontend: Next.js
• Backend: Rust (Actix + SeaORM)
• Database: Postgres
• Containerization: Docker

Privacy Notice

This project only collects user names and email addresses for the purpose of account creation and authentication.

• Names and emails are not shared with third parties.
• They are not used for marketing or unrelated purposes.
• Users may request deletion of their account (and associated data) at any time.

No other personal information is collected.