Hey all, just looking for some advice. I’d like to do a WASM application, just generally like a calendar + notes app. I’d like it to work on mobile and desktop through the browser. It’ll be served through Actix with Diesel for the backend. For the “frontend” I was thinking egui or leptos.

I’d like to avoid any JavaScript, so thought SSR might be the best approach.

Any thoughts/pitfalls? Should I look at something else for the frontend?

Its a lot of working parts for a calendar + notes app, but this will be a testing ground to see if I can get it all going :S

  • TehPers@beehaw.org
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    3 days ago

    Not yet. WASM unfortunately does not have DOM access or the ability to call any native JS functions without glue code.

    There are packages that work with wasm_bindgen in Rust that can generate that JS for you, but it’s all still super early.

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      3 days ago

      OK, guess I’ll avoid WASM for now then. Someone else mentioned HTMX and pair that with Leptos, I should be able to get away with no JS.