v/place is a digital canvas where users can collaborate to create pixel art heavily inspired by r/place.

• Real Time Per Pixel Update Info
• 16 color support
• cooldown validation
• ablity to update cooldown and canvas dimension.
• admin can bypass cooldown and reset canvas
• REST Api build using actix-web
• realtime canvas update based on websockets.
• Redis bitfild for storing canvas data (4bits/pixel).
• Pixel Updates are stored on Scylladb

To install and run the v-place api, follow the steps below:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/v4zha/v-place
   

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd v-place
   

3. rename the sample.env to .env file in the project root directory and set the required environment variables. For example:

   HOST=0.0.0.0
   PORT=8080
   REDIS_URL= "redis://redis:6379"
   SCYLLA_URL="scylla:9042"
   CANVAS_DIM=500 #Square canvas (dim * dim)
   CANVAS_ID=vplace_1
   COOLDOWN=30 #cooldown in seconds
   ADMIN_TOKEN="enter secret admin token"

4. run docker contrainer using docker compose

   docker compose up
   

• v-place UI
• user Auth and Validation
• log all updates