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gize

Productivity-first backend framework for Rust: the gize CLI.

Gize gives you Django-like velocity (scaffolding, conventions, generators, migrations) without giving up Rust's guarantees, performance, or transparency. It generates idiomatic Rust you own: plain Axum handlers, plain SQLx queries, plain SQL migrations. No hidden runtime, no reflection, no magic. Delete Gize and you still have a working Rust codebase.

This crate provides the gize command-line binary. It orchestrates the rest of the Gize workspace (gize-core, gize-generator, gize-templates, gize-db, gize-openapi, gize-admin).

Installation

cargo install gize

Requires Rust 1.85+ (edition 2024). Generated apps run on PostgreSQL or SQLite.

Quickstart

Build a working product API in four commands:

# 1. Scaffold a project (Axum + SQLx). Add --database sqlite for a serverless target,
#    and --openapi for an OpenAPI spec + docs.
gize new shop
cd shop

# 2. Generate a full CRUD resource
gize make crud Product name:String price:i32 active:bool

# 3. Point at a database and apply the generated migration
export DATABASE_URL=postgres://localhost:5432/shop
createdb shop
gize migrate

# 4. Run it
gize serve

You now have working GET, POST, PUT and DELETE /products endpoints backed by the database. Every new project ships a built-in users resource with auth (register/login, password hashing, guarded write routes).

Command reference

Command	What it does
`gize new <name>`	Scaffold a project (`--database sqlite`, `--openapi`, `--no-user`)
`gize make app <name>`	Scaffold a module and wire it in idempotently
`gize make model <Name> field:Type ...`	Generate a model and migration
`gize make crud <Name> field:Type ...`	Generate a full, wired CRUD resource (incl. `belongs_to`)
`gize make migration [name]`	Blank migration, or diff the model into an `ALTER TABLE`
`gize make admin`	Generate a separate React admin SPA for all resources
`gize sync`	Reconcile the project from `gize.toml`
`gize migrate [--status]`	Apply or inspect migrations
`gize serve`	Build and run the app
`gize fmt` / `gize check`	rustfmt / clippy wrappers
`gize doctor`	Diagnose environment/project
`gize <plugin>`	Run a `gize-<name>` plugin executable on PATH

Generating commands support --dry-run (print the plan, write nothing) and --force (overwrite existing files). Generators never destroy your work: gize sync reports drift instead of clobbering hand edits.

Field types

Fields are given inline as name:Type. A relationship is name:belongs_to:target. Every model also gets id: Uuid plus created_at and updated_at automatically.

Gize type	Rust type	PostgreSQL type
`String`	`String`	`TEXT`
`bool`	`bool`	`BOOLEAN`
`i32`	`i32`	`INTEGER`
`i64`	`i64`	`BIGINT`
`f64`	`f64`	`DOUBLE PRECISION`
`Uuid`	`uuid::Uuid`	`UUID`
`DateTime`	`chrono::DateTime<Utc>`	`TIMESTAMPTZ`

The SQLite target maps the same types to its storage classes (TEXT / INTEGER / REAL) through the dialect seam.

Documentation

Full documentation, architecture (ADRs), and roadmap live in the project repository.

License

Licensed under either of Apache-2.0 or MIT at your option.