minor refactoring and fixes: dev module

create-rust-app/src/dev/controller.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use crate::Database;
+use anyhow::{bail, Result};
 use diesel::{
     migration::{Migration, MigrationSource},
     query_dsl::RunQueryDsl,
@@ -43,12 +44,11 @@ pub fn query_db(db: &Database, body: &MySqlQuery) -> Result<String, diesel::resu
 }
 
 /// /db/is-connected
-///
-/// # Panics
-/// * cannot connect to the database
 #[must_use]
 pub fn is_connected(db: &Database) -> bool {
-    let mut db = db.pool.clone().get().unwrap();
+    let Ok(mut db) = db.pool.clone().get() else {
+        return false;
+    };
     let is_connected = sql_query("SELECT 1;").execute(&mut db);
     is_connected.is_err()
 }
@@ -136,25 +136,24 @@ pub fn needs_migration(db: &Database) -> bool {
 /// * cannot find the migrations directory
 /// * cannot run the migrations
 ///
-/// TODO: return a Result instead of a tuple (bool, Option<String>), this is Rust, not Go
-#[must_use]
-pub fn migrate_db(db: &Database) -> (bool, /* error message: */ Option<String>) {
+/// TODO: Propagate more of these errors instead of panicking
+pub fn migrate_db(db: &Database) -> Result<()> {
     let mut db = db.pool.clone().get().unwrap();
 
     let source = FileBasedMigrations::find_migrations_directory().unwrap();
     let has_pending_migrations =
         MigrationHarness::has_pending_migration(&mut db, source.clone()).unwrap();
 
     if !has_pending_migrations {
-        return (true, None);
+        return Ok(());
     }
 
     let op = MigrationHarness::run_pending_migrations(&mut db, source);
     match op {
-        Ok(_) => (true, None),
+        Ok(_) => Ok(()),
         Err(err) => {
             println!("{err:#?}");
-            (false, Some(err.to_string()))
+            bail!(err)
         }
     }
 }

create-rust-app/src/dev/dev_server.rs

@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ async fn handle_socket(stream: WebSocket, state: Arc<AppState>) {
                 }
                 DevServerEvent::CompileMessages(messages) => {
                     let mut s = state2.dev.lock().unwrap();
-                    s.compiler_messages = messages.clone();
+                    s.compiler_messages.clone_from(&messages);
                 }
                 DevServerEvent::SHUTDOWN => {
                     let mut s = state2.dev.lock().unwrap();
@@ -300,7 +300,11 @@ async fn handle_socket(stream: WebSocket, state: Arc<AppState>) {
                                     println!("📝 Could not open file `{file_name}`");
                                 });
                             } else if t.eq_ignore_ascii_case("migrate") {
-                                let (success, error_message) = controller::migrate_db(&state3.db);
+                                let (success, error_message) =
+                                    match controller::migrate_db(&state3.db) {
+                                        Ok(_) => (true, None),
+                                        Err(e) => (false, Some(e.to_string())),
+                                    };
 
                                 state3
                                     .tx

create-rust-app/src/dev/mod.rs

@@ -305,11 +305,14 @@ fn check_exit(state: &DevState) {
 
 async fn listen_for_signals(signal_tx: tokio::sync::broadcast::Sender<DevServerEvent>) {
     let (event_sender, event_receiver) = priority::bounded::<Event, Priority>(1024);
-    let (er_s, mut er_r) = tokio::sync::mpsc::channel(64);
+    let (error_sender, mut error_receiver) = tokio::sync::mpsc::channel(64);
 
     // panic on errors
     tokio::spawn(async move {
-        while let Some(error) = er_r.recv().await {
+        // we panic on the first error we receive, so we only need to recv once
+        // if, in the future, we change the error handling to be more robust (not panic), we'll need to loop here
+        // like `while let Some(error) = error_receiver.recv().await { ... }`
+        if let Some(error) = error_receiver.recv().await {
             panic!(
                 "Error handling process signal:\n==============================\n{:#?}",
                 error
@@ -328,5 +331,5 @@ async fn listen_for_signals(signal_tx: tokio::sync::broadcast::Sender<DevServerE
         }
     });
 
-    worker(er_s, event_sender).await.unwrap();
+    worker(error_sender, event_sender).await.unwrap();
 }