A batteries-included web framework for Rust, from the Tokio team
Made by Tokio
View profile on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Topcoat is a modular, batteries-included Rust framework for building full-stack web apps, from the team behind Tokio — the async runtime most of the Rust ecosystem is built on.
It aims to make Rust web development feel complete out of the box rather than assembled from a dozen crates, and is published on crates.io under the MIT licence.
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You'll need The Rust toolchain · Setup needed
Worth knowing A young framework: the ecosystem around it is thinner than established alternatives, and Rust itself has a steep learning curve. BuildTube has not run or verified this software.
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