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🚀 Introduction

Welcome to Ferrox, a progressive Rust framework for building efficient, reliable, and scalable server-side applications.

Ferrox is built on top of Axum and Tokio, bringing the developer experience and architectural patterns of frameworks like NestJS and Spring Boot to the Rust ecosystem.

Philosophy​

In recent years, thanks to Node.js and frameworks like NestJS, JavaScript has become the "lingua franca" of the web for both front and back-end applications. However, as applications scale to enterprise levels, developers often face performance bottlenecks, massive memory footprints, and single-threaded CPU limitations.

Rust solves all of these hardware and concurrency problems, but historically lacks the rapid "Developer Experience (DX)" that JavaScript developers love.

Ferrox bridges this gap.

It provides an out-of-the-box application architecture that allows developers and teams to create highly testable, scalable, loosely coupled, and easily maintainable applications. The architecture is heavily inspired by Angular/NestJS, promoting Inversion of Control and modularity.

Zero-Trust by Default​

Unlike other micro-frameworks where you start with a blank canvas, Ferrox assumes you are building an Enterprise application. Out of the box, it provides:

  • API Gateway Patterns: PASETO JWT translation to internal headers.
  • Cache Stampede Protection: Built-in ferrox-singleflight to protect your databases.
  • CQRS & Sagas: Advanced patterns for distributed microservices.

High-Level vs Low-Level​

Ferrox is designed for both Junior developers and Senior Architects. Throughout this documentation, you will find:

  • High-Level Usage: Simple #[derive] macros and plug-and-play code snippets to get work done fast.
  • Low-Level Internals: Deep dives into how Ferrox manipulates the Axum request lifecycle, allowing you to build your own custom Interceptors and Guards.

💬 Join the Community​

Have questions or want to collaborate? Join the official Ferrox Community: