Rapid-web

A blazingly fast, modern, and simple Rust server framework enabling end-to-end typesafety for Typescript-based frontends

Initial features

• Simplified router + middleware
• File based routing
• Codegen for typescript clients (rust types -> typescript types) with extractor type safety
• Hot reload dev server
• Good defaults (CORS, logging middleware, custom error pages and better extractor error logging)
• Built-in actix crates (files, auth, etc)
• Easy JWT validation (authorization via clerk.dev) and middleware
• Scaffolded diesel orm, connection pooling, mailer, server state
• rapid extract command for extracting-out a rust backend from its frontend when scaling (with support for route typesafety via A types lib with a git path)
• Typescript and rust type generation from Diesel schema
• Better request/response logging in console for easy debugging
• Generators for route genration (rapid generate)
• Auto-serve all static assets from the /public folder
• A one-line SpaRouter for serving single page applications from a rapid-web server
  • Semi SSR for applying meta tags an OG-images (rapid calls it "meta" rendering)
• Clerk sdk

Next features

• Custom async-first ORM (called "Lightning")
• Specific queries (like GraphQL but without the overhead)
• React query integration
• Plugins

Acknowledgments

• Rapid is built on-top of one the most performant web server frameworks in the world (actix-web) and would not be possible without its existance.

Note: We do not recommend that you use Rapid in production as all of its core implementations are subject to change rapidly :)