RustCraft Webshop

#What it is

RustCraft is a complete online shop that you host yourself. A Rust API does the heavy lifting, while two SvelteKit apps provide the customer-facing storefront and the admin dashboard. The whole thing runs as a single Docker Compose stack — including database backups and one-click updates.

#Highlights

• Catalogue & inventory — physical and digital products with variants, images and stock, unlimited nested categories, and a bill-of-materials system that calculates product stock from shared parts. Low-stock alerts and a back-in-stock waitlist included.
• Checkout & payments — Stripe and PayPal, coupons, shipping zones with weight-based rates and tracking links. Digital-only orders skip shipping entirely.
• Orders & documents — status workflow, PDF invoices and packing slips, customer accounts with downloads.
• Emails — branded templates for orders, shipping, verification and password resets over any SMTP server.
• Built for Germany & the EU — order-button wording, withdrawal waiver, tax modes, sequential order numbers, legal page templates and a cookie consent banner.
• Administration — role-based access, JSON export/import of store data, a media library with automatic WebP conversion and admin-triggered updates with automatic database backups.

#Architecture

Service	Technology	Role
backend	Rust, Axum, SQLx	REST API, checkout, payments, emails, PDFs
storefront	SvelteKit	Server-rendered customer shop
admin	SvelteKit	Admin dashboard
db	PostgreSQL 16	Data storage on an internal network
updater	Rust	Watches releases, backs up the DB, rebuilds
proxy	Caddy (optional)	Automatic HTTPS for shop and admin domains

The project is still in active development — test thoroughly before running it in production.