Axum + Postgres Application Template

This repository contains an application template built using Axum and PostgreSQL. It serves as a starting point for creating a new Axum server.

Inspired by Zero To Production In Rust and realworld-axum-sqlx.

The full list of crates used can be found in the Cargo.toml file. However, here are some key ones:

• Axum - A user-friendly, modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper.
• Sqlx - An asynchronous, pure Rust SQL crate that supports compile-time checked queries without a DSL. It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and MSSQL.
• Tracing - A framework for instrumenting Rust programs to collect structured, event-based diagnostic information.
• Chrono - A comprehensive Date and Time library for Rust.
• Serde - A framework for efficiently and generically serializing and deserializing Rust data structures.
• Uuid - A library for generating and parsing UUIDs.

Getting Started

To begin with this project:

Install sqlx-cli

SQLx offers a command-line tool for creating and managing databases as well as migrations. It is available on the Cargo crates registry as sqlx-cli and can be installed as follows:

$ cargo install sqlx-cli --features postgres

Run Postgres

The most straightforward way to run Postgres is by using a container with a pre-built image. The command below will start latest version of Postgres using Docker:

$ docker run -d -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password postgres

Clone this Repository

$ git clone https://github.com/koskeller/axum-postgres-template
$ cd axum-postgres-template

Configure the Application

The backend application is preferably configured via environment variables. To simplify the process during development, we can use .env files to avoid defining the variables each time. As a starting point, you can simply copy the sample .env file in this repo and modify the .env file as per the comments therein.

$ cp .env.sample .env

Set Up the Application Database

With sqlx-cli installed and your .env file set up, you only need to run the following command to prepare the Postgres database for use:

$ sqlx db setup

Sqlx offline mode

To avoid the need of having a development database around to compile the project even when no modifications (to the database-accessing parts of the code) are done, this projects enables "offline mode" to cache the results of the SQL query analysis using the sqlx command-line tool. See sqlx-cli/README.md for more details.

$ cargo sqlx prepare

Starting the Application

With everything else set up, all you need to do now is:

$ cargo run

Autoreloading

To start the server and autoreload on code changes:

$ cargo install cargo-watch
$ cargo watch -q -x run

To format .json logs using jq:

$ cargo watch -q -x run | jq .

Example

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, Clone)]
pub struct ExampleReq {
    pub input: String,
}

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, Clone)]
pub struct ExampleResp {
    pub output: String,
}

pub async fn example(
    State(state): State<AppState>,
    req: Result<Json<ExampleReq>, JsonRejection>,
) -> Result<Json<ExampleResp>, ApiError> {
    // Returns ApiError::InvalidJsonBody if the Axum built-in extractor
    // returns an error.
    let Json(req) = req?;

    // Proceed with additional validation.
    if req.input.is_empty() {
        return Err(ApiError::InvalidRequest(
            "'input' should not be empty".to_string(),
        ));
    }

    // Anyhow errors are by default converted into ApiError::InternalError and assigned a 500 HTTP status code.
    let data: anyhow::Result<()> = Err(anyhow!("Some internal error"));
    let data = data?;

    let resp = ExampleResp {
        output: "hello".to_string(),
    };
    Ok(Json(resp))
}

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome! Feel free to check the current issues in this repository for tasks that need attention. If you find something missing or that could be improved, please open a new issue.