Cancer Framework

A Laravel-inspired web framework for Rust.

Cancer brings the developer experience of Laravel to Rust, providing familiar patterns and conventions while leveraging Rust's safety and performance.

Features

• Routing - Expressive route definitions with middleware support
• Database - SeaORM integration with migrations and models
• Validation - Laravel-style validation with declarative rules
• Authentication - Session-based auth with guards
• Inertia.js - Full-stack React/TypeScript with compile-time validation
• Events - Event dispatcher with sync/async listeners
• Queues - Background job processing with Redis
• Notifications - Multi-channel notifications (mail, database, slack)
• Broadcasting - WebSocket channels with authorization
• Storage - File storage abstraction (local, S3)
• Caching - Cache with tags support
• Testing - Test utilities and factories

Quick Example

#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
use cancer_rs::*;

#[handler]
pub async fn index(req: Request) -> Response {
    let users = User::find().all(&db).await?;

    Inertia::render(&req, "Users/Index", UsersProps { users })
}

pub fn routes() -> Router {
    Router::new()
        .get("/users", index)
        .middleware(AuthMiddleware)
}
}

Philosophy

Cancer aims to be the "Laravel of Rust" - a batteries-included framework that lets you build web applications quickly without sacrificing Rust's guarantees.

Convention over configuration - Sensible defaults that work out of the box.

Developer experience - Clear error messages, helpful CLI, and comprehensive documentation.

Type safety - Compile-time validation of routes, components, and queries.

Performance - Async-first design built on Tokio.

Getting Started

Ready to start building? Head to the Installation guide.