A modern Rust backend starter template using:

• Axum for HTTP/WebSocket server
• Async-GraphQL for GraphQL APIs
• PostgreSQL via tokio-postgres and bb8 async connection pool
• Redis via bb8-redis async connection pool
• Firebase Auth integration
• WebSocket support
• Jemalloc for improved memory performance

• Rust 1.85+ (2024 edition)
• PostgreSQL server
• Redis server

git clone https://github.com/rust-dd/rust-axum-async-graphql-postgres-redis-starter.git cd rust-axum-async-graphql-postgres-redis-starter

Create a .env file in the project root:

POSTGRES_HOST=localhost POSTGRES_PORT=5432 POSTGRES_USER=postgres POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password POSTGRES_DB=postgres REDIS_HOST=redis://localhost:6379 FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=firebase_project ADMIN_SECRET=admin1234 

cargo run

Once running, open: http://localhost:8000/graphql

This project uses jemallocator as the global allocator for improved memory allocation performance in high-throughput environments and simd-json for fast JSON operations.

#[global_allocator] static GLOBAL: tikv_jemallocator::Jemalloc = tikv_jemallocator::Jemalloc;

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