@akshay2642005/rust-starter

Create a production-ready Axum backend from the Rust Starter template.

npx @akshay2642005/rust-starter@latest my-api
cd my-api
cp config.example.yml config.yml
docker compose up -d
cargo xtask migrate up
cargo run

The generated service includes Axum, Better Auth, SeaORM, Postgres, OpenAPI, telemetry, Docker, and migration tooling.

Requirements

• Node.js 18 or newer
• A Rust toolchain that supports edition 2024
• PostgreSQL, or Docker + Docker Compose for local development

Usage

npx @akshay2642005/rust-starter@latest [project-name]

If project-name is omitted, the CLI prompts for one.

Generated project

The starter gives you:

• Axum 0.8 routing and middleware
• Better Auth email/password flows and sessions
• SeaORM entities and repository helpers for Postgres
• Utoipa OpenAPI with Scalar UI in development
• Prometheus metrics, health probes, structured tracing, and optional OTLP
• Docker Compose for Postgres and Jaeger
• cargo xtask commands for migrations and entity generation

Local package checks

From this package directory:

npm run typecheck
npm run smoke