What has been your experience creating a web app with Rust vs other languages

• diesel

  82 11,904 9.5 Rust

  A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust

  

I'm very comfortable with SQL but I still prefer the interface provided by ORMs for the simpler operations, as long as they have an escape hatch that allows for raw SQL when needed. AFAIK there is nothing in Rust right now that comes close to what Python offers there. I think the most developped one right now is Diesel, but it intentionally skips convenience methods for simpler joins like frameworks in other languages have. It also doesn't support async (https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/issues/399) which is a shame.

• sailfish

  5 707 5.9 Rust

  Simple, small, and extremely fast template engine for Rust

  

Using [Actix](actix.rs/), Sailfish, thiserror, and a bunch of supporting libraries reminds me of when I was building a project using Pylons and Mako (now replaced with Pyramid), except without the SQL.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• miniserve

  51 5,575 9.1 Rust

  🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!

I haven't done anything SQL-related in Rust yet (I'm still waiting for something as comfortable as Django ORM migrations or Alembic) but I am currently working on something that's "miniserve but for image galleries" as a practice project.

• fishlist-backend

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Here's the latest project I've been working on. With the structure, even though it's something like 2000 lines, you'll find it's very easy to understand where everything is: https://gitlab.com/fishlist/fishlist-backend

• sqlx

  144 11,742 9.2 Rust

  🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. (by launchbadge)

  

I'm gonna give somewhat of a different opinion than all the other guys: I've explored Rust web development a little during a week I took at the end of last year to widen my tech knowledge, and in my opinion it's just not there. The language is beautiful, but the amount of libraries is simply not enough. Both warp and tide are great starting points, but I found database access to be lackluster. SQLx is fine but can't fetch *-to-many associations (https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/issues/298 - this is blocked by a language feature) and diesel is not async. Template engines are good (very much like askama), so we have good support there. What I dearly missed is automatic OpenAPI spec generation based on endpoints and comments - ASP.Net is absolutely amazing in regards to that and has never disappointed me. I also don't really like rolling my own authentication scheme, although others might be okay with that. Rust-crypto is pretty great. In general I didn't find productivity to be very high, taking much longer to accomplish the same site compared to using Phoenix and its generators that do most of the work for me.

• jelly-actix-web-starter

  15 225 0.0 Rust

  Discontinued A starter template for actix-web projects that feels very Django-esque. Avoid the boring stuff and move faster.

  

For anyone interested: https://github.com/secretkeysio/jelly-actix-web-starter

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