Ironic started with a simple question: What if building a production Rust backend could feel as structured and productive as building with NestJS—without giving up Rust's type safety and performance? Rust gives us incredible correctness and performance, but building a complete application often means choosing and wiring together many separate libraries. Ironic brings those pieces together around a modular architecture. You get: ⚡ Compile-time dependency injection 🧩 Modules, controllers & providers 🛡️ JWT, OAuth2, sessions & security middleware 📚 Automatic OpenAPI / Swagger 🔍 Validation, pipes, guards & interceptors 📊 Prometheus & OpenTelemetry 🔄 Background jobs, queues, events & CQRS 🔌 WebSockets, SSE, GraphQL & gRPC integrations 🗄️ SQLx, SeaORM, Diesel, MongoDB & Redis integrations 🧪 Testing utilities and in-process HTTP testing 🛠️ CLI scaffolding and code generation And because it's Rust, the framework is designed around compile-time correctness rather than relying heavily on runtime reflection. Ironic currently builds on Axum, so you can benefit from the mature Rust HTTP ecosystem while getting a higher-level application architecture on top. We'd love feedback from Rust developers: Would you use a batteries-included application framework like Ironic for your next backend? Try it, break it, benchmark it, and tell us what you think. 🦀

Ironic

Production-ready application framework for Rust

Production-ready application framework for Rust