Introducing Topcoat

July 2026

Secondary coverage of Tokio Topcoat: batteries-included SSR Rust framework with HTMX-like reactive instructions (no WASM). Asset pipeline, Tailwind/shadcn-style components, request-level memoization. Authors Carl Lerche & Julien Scholz. Early-stage; Axum remains lower-level API path; Toasty ORM integration planned.