If you've ever used Django, you know the feeling: one command, and you have an admin panel, an ORM, form validation, middleware, session handling — everything just works. Then you try Rust web development, and you're back to assembling pieces yourself.
That's why I built Runique: a batteries-included web framework for Rust, inspired by Django's philosophy, built on top of Axum and Tokio.
Why "Django for Rust"?
Existing Rust frameworks are excellent at what they do — Axum is fast and composable, Actix-Web is a performance beast — but they're low-level by design. You bring your own ORM, your own session store, your own CSRF protection, your own admin interface. For many projects, that's the right tradeoff.
Runique takes the opposite bet: convention over configuration, with a structured, opinionated setup that gets you from zero to a production-ready app fast, without sacrificing Rust's safety and performance.
