Rust GraphQL Template 🏗️

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Features

• Async-GraphQL GraphQL server library.
  • Relay-compatible cursor-based pagination.
  • Playground disabled in the production environment for performance reasons.
  • Store GraphQL schema to file automatically.
• SQLx SQL toolkit.
• Axum web framework.
• Tracing with local timestamp.
• Frunk to avoid writing repetitive boilerplate.
• utoipa Auto-generated OpenAPI documentation.
• git-cliff Changelog Generator.
• Exhaustive Integration tests.
  • Uses Cynic for GraphQL client.
  • Hurl for E2E test.
• Fast and tiny image container. Using cargo-chef and scratch or distroless image.
• GitHub Action for CI and release.
• Git hooks for continuous development (format, lint, test).. Removed
• Consistent formatting using dprint for non Rust files (Markdown, Dockerfiles, Etc).
• cargo-binstall support.
• cargo-release workflow.

Checklist

When you use this template, try to follow the checklist to update your info properly

• Change the author name in LICENSE
• Change the package info in Cargo.toml
• Change the application name:
  • Database name and other values in .env, .example.env, and other container related files.
  • The OpenAPI info in routes.rs
  • App name in release.yml
  • Project URL in cliff.toml
  • App name in the import statements across Rust source and tests files.
• Clean up the READMEs and remove routes

And, enjoy :)

Usage

$ # Clone the repository

$ # Run the database
$ podman-compose -f docker-compose.local.yml up db -d

$ touch $SCHEMA_LOCATION # See .example.env
$ just dev  # See also `just setup`

Go to the playground http://127.0.0.1:8000/playground to see the schema.

Navigating the Code

All the features can be found in the CHANGELOG file tagged with feat. The file only contains user-facing changes, so you won't get lost navigating the code.

Credits

• Clean and Scalable Architecture for Web Applications in Rust by Sylvain Kerkour. Article, Code.
• Icons and emoji from Noto Emoji