Display recent articles on the homepage

src/models/posts.rs

@@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ impl Post {
             .into_iter().nth(0)
     }
 
+    pub fn get_recents(conn: &PgConnection, limit: i64) -> Vec<Post> {
+        posts::table.order(posts::creation_date.desc())
+            .limit(limit)
+            .load::<Post>(conn)
+            .expect("Error loading recent posts")
+    }
+
     pub fn get_authors(&self, conn: &PgConnection) -> Vec<User> {
         use schema::users;
         use schema::post_authors;

src/routes/instance.rs

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 use rocket::request::Form;
 use rocket::response::Redirect;
 use rocket_contrib::Template;
-use std::collections::HashMap;
+use serde_json;
 
 use BASE_URL;
+use activity_pub::object::Object;
 use db_conn::DbConn;
+use models::posts::Post;
 use models::users::User;
 use models::instance::*;
 
@@ -12,9 +14,19 @@ use models::instance::*;
 fn index(conn: DbConn, user: Option<User>) -> Template {
     match Instance::get_local(&*conn) {
         Some(inst) => {
+            let recents = Post::get_recents(&*conn, 5);
+
             Template::render("instance/index", json!({
                 "instance": inst,
-                "account": user
+                "account": user,
+                "recents": recents.into_iter().map(|p| {
+                    json!({
+                        "post": p,
+                        "author": p.get_authors(&*conn)[0],
+                        "url": p.compute_id(&*conn),
+                        "date": p.creation_date.timestamp()
+                    })
+                }).collect::<Vec<serde_json::Value>>()
             }))
         }
         None => {

templates/instance/index.tera

@@ -6,4 +6,13 @@
 
 {% block content %}
     <h1>Welcome on {{ instance.name }}</h1>
+
+    <h2>Latest articles</h2>
+    {% for article in recents %}
+        <div>
+            <h3><a href="{{ article.url }}">{{ article.post.title }}</a></h3>
+            <p>{{ article.post.content | escape | truncate(length=200) }}…</p>
+            <p>By {{ article.author.display_name }} ⋅ {{ article.date | date(format="%B %e") }}</p>
+        </div>
+    {% endfor %}
 {% endblock content %}