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

  • Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 天前

    Yeah, it’s funny because I’ve been doing the same thing with my wife on some personal projects like family wiki and event calendar and things where we wanted a web application that could be used on both desktop and mobile.

    Here’s what I found so far, Avoiding JavaScript entirely by using a templating language and a HTTP server like Axum Produces fairly sub-par results if you are hoping for interactivity ( Frequent page reloads mean that you can’t have big sodebars etc.)

    Qt/qml are OK, but no mobile.

    Leptos is what I was looking at, but in the end TypeScript with solid-js was simpler, more performant and more features (although I absolutely hope to revisit leptos down the line).

    What you get with solid is signals/slots for state, server side functions to avoid the need for an api, routing for template management, easy tailwind integration and of course any js you may want (eg full calendar io).

    I wouldn’t recommend egui if your focus was web.

    Oh, and finally, the other issue with Leptos over Solid is that it’s a bit more work to get into Electron from what I understand. Tauri Does not support Linux, so that’s not really an option for a cross-platform.