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I think it might be nice if such posts included some background
Build for web, desktop, and mobile, and more with a single codebase. Zero-config setup, integrated hot-reloading, and signals-based state management. Add backend functionality with Server Functions and bundle with our CLI.
I don't think everyone is up to date on every Rust library that exists
I mean, it says what it is right there in the second sentence on the page, to be fair:
Welcome back to another Dioxus release! Dioxus (dye • ox • us) is a framework for building cross-platform apps in Rust. We make it easy to ship full-stack web, desktop, and mobile apps with a single codebase.
It's not like the context was very far away 😅
It would be nice if some part of it was here
Personally very intrigued by Dioxus. I posted this thread the other day about frontend and I can't help but be drawn by the possibility of not having to learn a JS/TS framework and instead go with a Rust framework. But at the same time, Dioxus is still very much behind on the ecosystem side because it doesn't have access to all the libraries and tools and support and online help that popular JS/TS frameworks do. So I'm sort of conflicted. Being a frontrunner comes at a cost sometimes 😅
Only thing I actually don't care much about with Dioxus is the fullstack premise. I'm not much for the fullstack idea. I think there is value in separating the backend and frontend. I feel like in principle it should be possible for many frontends to exist for a single backend. I feel the fullstack approach makes the backend and frontend too coupled and it would probably be hard to write a different frontend for the backend.
@SorteKanin I realize that cost too. I''d love to run Rust up and down my stack. But JS is very much still king unfortunately. The sheer breadth of materials, mature frameworks and libraries make it the prudent choice. But the documentation/example part is something I feel deeply. I remember struggling with iced.rs when I had to use it. Sure, there were examples, but it was a complete shift in thinking and implementing complex widgets and visuals was really hard. I felt a lot of similarities to that when I tried Dioxus. It is a terrific framework, it just needs time to mature, as does pretty much ever front end Rust framework.
Like you, I'm not well versed in the web**** world (self-censored), but from my observations, Leptos appears to be the most popular (community) web rust/wasm framework currently. Why? I wouldn't know.
Why do you say Leptos is more popular? Dioxus has more stars on GitHub.
Look at how many actual projects are using dioxus vs leptos. I believe some. Of the projects listed on the dioxis website are no longer maintained.
GitHub stars can be bought very easily.