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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Id just use leptos. There will be a little bit of js to load the WASM but that would be it.

If it's a performance concern, i think solid-js had better performance than both egui and leptos anyway plus you get some niceties like codemirror (vim bindings), marked.js etc.

Egui is really nice dx wise but you will be restricted to those widgets, immediate mode may not scale as well as signals/{slots, effects}.

If it's a general dislike of JavaScript, you may want to look at QML.

I personally found QML to have really poor documentation around a lot of the widgets. Leptos is good, but I found SolidJS to have more of what I needed and the performance was good enough that I went without for my own personal stuff. But I also had different needs. I really needed something that could do charts, data tables, and your general GUI stuff as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

OK, I was hoping to have it usable with JS disabled entirely, but that sounds impossible based on what you and others are saying. At least I can level my expectations somewhat before diving in.

[–] taladar 1 points 3 weeks ago

As someone who regularly disables JS on websites (or rather refuses to enable it for a lot of websites) I am very glad WASM does not work around that restriction.

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