In this article, we will build a beginner-friendly CRUD API using Rust, Axum, SQLite, and sqlx.

We will build a simple users API where we can:

Create a user

Get all users

Get one user by ID

Update a user

Delete a user

This article uses a clean project structure instead of putting everything inside main.rs .

What We Are Using

We will use:

axum for building the web API

tokio for async runtime

sqlx for async database queries

sqlite as the database

serde for JSON serialization and deserialization

SQLite is a good database for learning because it does not need a separate database server.…