TypeScript (Sveltekit), Rust (Axum) and Postgres template

This is my own minimal boilerplate for TypeScript and Rust web project that uses Postgres. This is intended for development on Linux systems only, though it may work in any other environment with Bash installed. To get started:

• clone this repo and remove .git (or run npx degit <repo url>)
• replace all instances of "rename-me" with your project name
• run ./init-project.js init-client
• remove init-project.sh script and any README.md files

There are a couple convenience scripts located at the root of this directory if you have podman installed.

• postgres.sh: start a local postgres server on port 5432 and expose the app (if started in podman) on port 8081 (you are responsible for a properly configured firewall)
• run-local.sh: build and run a local server with podman

For environment variables, create server/.env.sh and source .env.sh before cargo run, or install a dotfiles crate

My development workflow is to open three terminals side by side, with the following contents:

./postgres.sh

cd client
npm run dev

cd server
cargo watch -x run

The full project will be available at https://localhost:5173

All the source code in this repository is licensed under MIT:

Copyright 2026 xethlyx

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