Loco: The one-person framework for Rust

Loco is a batteries-included, Rails-inspired web framework for Rust designed to let a single developer take a side project or startup from idea to production quickly. It bundles generators and wiring for models, controllers, jobs, mailers, auth, background workers and a CLI so services can be scaffolded, run, tested and deployed with minimal ceremony. The project emphasizes pragmatic, idiomatic Rust (SeaORM 2.0, Axum, edition 2024) and positions itself for solo or small teams: hide complexity by default, enable incremental use of components, and allow splitting or reconfiguring parts as the product grows.

Design choices focus on clarity and testability: request handlers are plain async functions returning Result (no macros or hidden magic), with an application context (database, config, workers) provided via extractors. Types are checked both ways - typed inputs and serialized responses - so controllers are easy to reason about and test. A representative handler queries articles::Model::latest(&ctx.db), maps to response view objects, and returns JSON; routes are composed with a tiny routing builder that prefixes and attaches handlers. The tooling and conventions aim to let one developer deliver confidently and scale without rewriting core application code.