GitHub - Burnsedia/Livelocd: Real Time Location Demon for websockts

Livelocd

Livelocd is a lightweight Axum-compatible plugin for real-time location tracking via WebSockets and a JSON API. Easily drop it into any Rust backend to enable live geolocation dashboards, game user tracking, or delivery fleet monitoring.

✨ Features

• 📡 WebSocket support for sending real-time location updates
• 👂 Subscribe to all users or individual users' locations
• 🌐 REST API to query current locations
• 🔐 Token-based authentication for WebSocket connections
• 🧩 Designed as a plugin for Axum apps
• ⚡ Built with minimal dependencies, powered by tokio, axum, and serde_json

📚 For detailed documentation, please see docs.md.

📦 Installation

In your project’s Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
livelocd = { git = "https://github.com/Burnsedia/livelocd" }

🔌 Usage

In your Axum project:

use axum::Router;
use livelocd::{livelocd_routes, set_token_validator, ClosureValidator};
use std::sync::Arc;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    // 1. Set up your token validator
    let validator = ClosureValidator::new(|token: String| token.starts_with("valid-"));
    set_token_validator(Arc::new(validator));

    // 2. Add the livelocd routes
    let app = Router::new().merge(livelocd_routes());

    // 3. Start the server
    let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind("0.0.0.0:3000").await.unwrap();
    println!("Listening on: {}", listener.local_addr().unwrap());
    axum::serve(listener, app).await.unwrap();
}

📡 WebSocket Endpoints

All WebSocket endpoints require a token query parameter.

• GET /ws/send-location?token=<your-token> — Send JSON with a user_id and any arbitrary fields (e.g., lat/lng)
• GET /ws/subscribe?token=<your-token> — Receive real-time updates for all users
• GET /ws/subscribe/:user_id?token=<your-token> — Subscribe to updates for a specific user

Example JSON payload:

{
  "user_id": "user123",
  "lat": 33.7489954,
  "lng": -84.3879824,
  "status": "moving"
}

🔍 REST API Endpoints

• GET /api/users — Get current known location for all users
• GET /api/users/:user_id — Get most recent location for a single user

🧪 Testing Locally

Use websocat:

# Send location
websocat "ws://localhost:3000/ws/send-location?token=valid-token"
# Then, send the JSON payload:
{"user_id": "car-1", "lat": 40.7, "lng": -74.0}

# Subscribe to all
websocat "ws://localhost:3000/ws/subscribe?token=valid-token"

🛠 Built With

• Axum
• Serde
• Tokio

📄 License

MIT

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests welcome! Let’s make real-time dashboards in Rust even easier.

Made with Love by Bailey Burnsed