Quickstart | Fastcart Docs

This guide takes a clean checkout to a running Fastcart API and admin UI.

Prerequisites

Fastcart needs:

Rust. The pinned toolchain in rust-toolchain.toml is installed automatically by rustup.
Node.js 22 or later and pnpm 10 for the admin, storefront, and docs apps.
SQLite. Fastcart creates the database files for you; no separate server is required.

Steps

Install front-end dependencies
```
pnpm install
```
Build the Rust workspace
```
cargo build --workspace
```
Initialize the platform
This creates the platform database and default configuration.
```
cargo run -p fastcart-cli -- init --dir .
```

Create the first owner

cargo run -p fastcart-cli -- user create \
  --email owner@example.com --password 'change-me-please'

Create a store

The domain is the Host header storefront requests resolve their store from.

cargo run -p fastcart-cli -- store create \
  --name "Demo Store" --slug demo --domain shop.example.com \
  --owner-email owner@example.com

Start the API
```
cargo run -p fastcart-cli -- serve
```
Start the admin
In a second terminal:
```
pnpm dev:admin
```

Check it works

The API listens on http://localhost:8080 and the admin on http://localhost:5174. Sign in with the owner account you created, or choose Explore the demo store on the sign-in screen.

Next steps

Introduction: what Fastcart is and what it includes.
Storefront SSR: how the universal workerd runtime renders pages.
Configuration: environment overrides for the server, email, and payments.
API reference: the versioned HTTP surface and examples.