What is Rapina?

Rapina is a modern, high-performance web framework for building APIs with Rust, inspired by FastAPI's developer experience. Built on predictable patterns and strong conventions.

Why Rapina?

• Fast: Native Rust performance. No garbage collector, no runtime overhead.
• Type-safe: Typed extractors, typed errors, everything checked at compile time. If it compiles, it works.
• Opinionated: Convention over configuration. 90% of apps need 10% of decisions. We made them for you.
• AI-friendly: Predictable patterns that humans and LLMs understand equally well.
• Secure: Protected by default. All routes require authentication unless explicitly marked public.
• Batteries-included: Standardized errors with trace_id, JWT auth, and OpenAPI generation out of the box.

Who is it for?

You know Rust and you're tired of boilerplate. You want to ship APIs fast without sacrificing type safety.

If you're new to Rust, start with The Rust Book — then come back. HTTP and REST basics help, but Rapina handles the ceremony so you can focus on building.

Built on solid foundations

Rapina is built directly on battle-tested crates:

• Hyper for HTTP handling
• Tokio for async runtime
• SeaORM for database operations (optional)

No layers of abstraction. Maximum control, maximum performance.