Feat: Added IP_ADDR args to easily set IP address

- Fixed documentation

README.md

@@ -10,7 +10,12 @@ A wannabe discord clone but currently only support websocket real time chatting
 - Run `cargo build` at project root to build the binary.
 
 ## Running
-- Run the server with `cargo run` or `RUST_LOG=info cargo run` to run with debug.
+### Development
+- Run the server with `cargo run` or `RUST_LOG=debug cargo run` to run with debug.
+### Production
+- Run the binary with `minh_cord {LOCAL_IP_ADDRESS}`.
 
 ## Connecting to the server
-- If server is running on localhost, run `telnet 127.0.0.1 8080` to connect to the server.
+- Get your local IP address of the machine you're running the server on: i.e `192.168.0.100`
+- Run the server with the above commands.
+- Run `telnet 192.168.0.100` from a client to connect to the server.

src/main.rs

@@ -4,17 +4,22 @@ use tokio::{
     net::TcpListener,
     sync::broadcast,
 };
-use log::info;
+use log::debug;
+use std::env;
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<(), Report> {
+    let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
+
     env_logger::init();
     // Setup the Environment
     setup()?;
 
-    // Set up a TCP listener to listen for incoming tcp requests
-    let listener = TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:8080").await.unwrap();
-    info!("Bounded to localhost port 8080");
+    let ip_address = &args[1];
+
+    // Set up a TCP listener to listen for incoming tcp requests at the ip address that is passed from the command line
+    let listener = TcpListener::bind(format!("{ip_address}:8080")).await.unwrap();
+    debug!("{}", format!("Bounded to {ip_address} port 8080"));
 
     // Setting up broadcast channel: A channel that will accept messages and broadcast them to everyone connected to the TCP server
     // the channel accepts an i32 that is the maximum number of messages the channel can retain at any given time
@@ -28,7 +33,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Report> {
 
         // accept the requests
         let (mut socket, addr) = listener.accept().await.unwrap();
-        info!("Accepted a websocket request from {}", addr);
+        debug!("Accepted a websocket request from {}", addr);
 
         tokio::spawn(async move {
             // Splitting the TCP socket into read/write halves
@@ -69,11 +74,11 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Report> {
 }
 
 fn setup() -> Result<(), Report> {
-    info!("Changing some environment variables!");
+    debug!("Changing some environment variables!");
 
     if std::env::var("RUST_LIB_BACKTRACE").is_err() {
         std::env::set_var("RUST_LIB_BACKTRACE", "1");
-        info!("RUST_LIB_BACKTRACE is set. There will be pretty error messages !")
+        debug!("RUST_LIB_BACKTRACE is set. There will be pretty error messages !")
     }
     color_eyre::install()?;