Local Run

We will assume that you have already initialized a project. If you haven’t, you should check out our quick start section.

While deploying to production is easy with shuttle, running your project locally is useful for development. To start your project on your local system, while in your project directory, run:

cargo shuttle run

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Local runs with databases

If your project relies on a database resource, it will default to starting a docker container for that database. If you’d like to opt out of this behavior and rather supply your own database URI, simply pass it in as an argument to your resource. This argument also supports insertion of secrets from Secrets.toml with string interpolation:

#[shuttle_runtime::main]
async fn tide(#[shuttle_aws_rds::Postgres(
        local_uri = "postgres://postgres:{secrets.PASSWORD}@localhost:16695/postgres"
    )] pool: PgPool) -> ShuttleTide<MyState> { ... }

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Expose your application to your local network

If you’d like to expose your application to you local network, for example if you’re serving a static website and you’d like to open it on your phone, simply pass in the --external flag:

cargo shuttle run --external

This will bind your local application to 0.0.0.0:8000, and you will now be able to connect to it using your computer’s local IP. If you’d also like to change the port, you can do so with the --port argument:

cargo shuttle run --external --port 8123

PS: you may need to open the port your app is started on in your firewall.