Rust Axum Web APIs

Build high-performance web APIs in Rust with Axum. Generates route handlers, middleware, extractors, error handling, database integration with SQLx, and async patterns on the Tokio runtime.

This skill helps you build production APIs with Axum, the ergonomic Rust web framework built on Tokio and Tower. It generates typed route handlers, implements middleware for auth and logging, configures SQLx database pools, handles errors with proper HTTP responses, and structures projects for maintainability.

When to use

Use when building high-performance APIs in Rust, creating microservices that need maximum throughput, or when you need memory-safe backend code with zero garbage collection pauses.

Examples

CRUD API with SQLx

Build a REST API with PostgreSQL database access

Create an Axum REST API for a blog with SQLx PostgreSQL, proper error handling, pagination, and JWT authentication middleware

WebSocket chat server

Build a real-time chat server in Rust

Build an Axum WebSocket chat server with rooms, broadcast messaging, and connection management using Tokio channels