Descriptor-driven admin
Lists, forms, filters, and navigation are structs. Generic handlers turn them into working screens.
Open source · Built in Rust
The content framework for Rust.
Laterite gives you a descriptor-driven admin, portable migrations, and role-based access from the first commit. One codebase runs on PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite.
cargo install laterite-cli
lat new
✓ scaffolds the app, sets up the database, creates the first adminEverything an admin needs, as data.
Screens are serde descriptor structs rendered by generic handlers, so the pieces you build are configuration, not one-off controllers.
Portable data layer
Queries and migrations build with sea-query over sqlx and run unchanged on Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.
Reversible migrations
Each migration is a Rust unit with up and down, applied and rolled back by a runner that tracks history per module.
Role-based permissions
Dotted permission strings on roles, with per-user overrides that take precedence, enforced by middleware.
Server-rendered
Askama templates with HTMX. No JavaScript framework to learn, ship, or keep up to date.
Secure by default
Argon2id credentials, an append-only authentication log, and an audit trail on every admin mutation.
Free, forever
Yours to run, without a licence to renew.
Laterite is dual licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0. Build one application or a hundred, ship them to clients, and keep every line. There are no seats to count and no per-project fees.
See what is included- PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite from day one
- Realtime, jobs, and cache as swappable drivers
- Redis optional, never required
- One small binary sets up a whole app