Documentation

Loco is the one-person framework for Rust — batteries-included and Rails-inspired. These docs take you from your first cargo loco command all the way to running in production: models, controllers, background jobs, mailers, auth, and the CLI that wires them together.

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Tutorial Your first app From cargo install to a running, tested app in a few minutes. Tutorial The tour A guided walk through controllers, models, jobs, and views. Tutorial Build a small authenticated app Wire up auth, a database, and background jobs end to end.

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How-to guides Get a task done 35 focused recipes — add a model, protect a route, schedule a job, deploy. Reference Look something up Configuration, the CLI, generators, the schema DSL, and core APIs. Explanation Understand the why Architecture, the background-processing model, and coming from Axum. Tutorials Learn step by step Guided lessons that build a real app from zero. Extras Upgrade & more Version upgrade notes and other odds and ends. Resources Go further FAQ and the best Loco content from around the web.