add basic client connectivity

.gitignore

@@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ Cargo.lock
 # Added by cargo
 
 /target
+
+# Needed to ignore IntelliJ stettings
+/.idea

src/bin/client.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+use std::net::TcpStream;
+
 fn main() {
-    println! ("client");
+    let stream = TcpStream::connect("127.0.0.1:8080");
+    if stream.is_ok() {
+        println!("Connected to the server!");
+    } else {
+        println!("Couldn't connect to server...");
     }
+} // the stream is closed here