Create a Rust Backend

Use the Rust Backend pack when you want a compact API service with strong types, predictable performance, and compiler-enforced structure.

Generate the Rust backend starter

Open the Rust Backend pack in the Stack Builder, or run:

bun create better-fullstack@latest my-rust-backend \
  --ecosystem rust \
  --rust-web-framework axum \
  --rust-frontend none \
  --rust-orm sea-orm \
  --rust-logging tracing \
  --rust-error-handling anyhow-thiserror

What the pack includes

• Axum for HTTP routes.
• SeaORM for typed database access.
• PostgreSQL-oriented backend shape.
• Tracing for structured application logs.
• anyhow and thiserror patterns for practical error handling.

First things to customize

1. Define your route modules around resources or workflows.
2. Add database entities and migrations for the real domain.
3. Keep handler errors explicit so API failures are easy to debug.
4. Run cargo check and cargo clippy -- -D warnings as the project grows.

When this is the right pack

Choose this for high-confidence backend services, APIs with strict performance expectations, systems tools with HTTP surfaces, and teams that prefer Rust's compile-time guarantees.

For a stack-level walkthrough, read Axum with PostgreSQL and SeaORM.