PlutoUI.jl VS Rocket

Pluto notebooks are distinct from Jupyter notebooks in that they are reactive: https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl

An easy alternative is using a Pluto notebook with PlutoUI.jl. You can create input fields, sliders, check boxes, etc in a very easy way. It’s an easy and fast way to create a simple GUI.

ubuntu@vm1:~$ curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh - info: downloading installer Welcome to Julia! This will download and install the official Julia Language distribution and its version manager Juliaup. Juliaup will be installed into the Juliaup home directory, located at: /home/ubuntu/.juliaup The julia, juliaup and other commands will be added to Juliaup bin directory, located at: /home/ubuntu/.juliaup/bin This path will then be added to your PATH environment variable by modifying the profile files located at: /home/ubuntu/.bashrc /home/ubuntu/.profile Julia will look for a new version of Juliaup itself every 1440 seconds when you start julia. You can uninstall at any time with juliaup self uninstall and these changes will be reverted. ✔ Do you want to install with these default configuration choices? · Proceed with installation Now installing Juliaup Installing Julia 1.7.2+0 (x64). Julia was successfully installed on your system. Depending on which shell you are using, run one of the following commands to reload the the PATH environment variable: . /home/ubuntu/.bashrc . /home/ubuntu/.profile pkg> add https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl Cloning git-repo `[https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl`](https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl`) Updating git-repo `[https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl`](https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl`) Resolving package versions... Installed Reexport ─────────────── v1.2.2 Installed IOCapture ────────────── v0.2.2 Installed AbstractPlutoDingetjes ─ v1.1.4 Installed JSON ─────────────────── v0.21.3 Installed Hyperscript ──────────── v0.0.4 Installed FixedPointNumbers ────── v0.8.4 Installed HypertextLiteral ─────── v0.9.3 Installed Parsers ──────────────── v2.3.0 Installed ColorTypes ───────────── v0.11.0 Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.7/Project.toml` [7f904dfe] + PlutoUI v0.7.38 `[https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl#main`](https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl#main`) Updating `~/.julia/environments/v1.7/Manifest.toml` [6e696c72] + AbstractPlutoDingetjes v1.1.4 [3da002f7] + ColorTypes v0.11.0 [53c48c17] + FixedPointNumbers v0.8.4 [47d2ed2b] + Hyperscript v0.0.4 [ac1192a8] + HypertextLiteral v0.9.3 [b5f81e59] + IOCapture v0.2.2 [682c06a0] + JSON v0.21.3 [69de0a69] + Parsers v2.3.0 [7f904dfe] + PlutoUI v0.7.38 `[https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl#main`](https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl#main`) [189a3867] + Reexport v1.2.2 [a63ad114] + Mmap [2f01184e] + SparseArrays [10745b16] + Statistics Precompiling project... 10 dependencies successfully precompiled in 23 seconds (24 already precompiled)

I realize that, and there may be no rational reason for you to switch to a setup like mine. But, aside from avoiding such things a Wordpress exploits, my approach turned out to have other advantages. Over the years I added to my knowledge and taught myself how to provide things other than static files. Today my readers can use gnuplot in a Jupyter notebook, and interactive Pluto¹ notebooks backed by Julia running on a VPS. No canned solution exists for this, and in fact I had to work with the Pluto developers to iron out some kinks. This is only possible because I have total control over the servers. If you know will only ever want to serve static files, there are simpler options (with potential pitfalls). But those options are also limiting, in case one day you want to do something unusual.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl

When you are using Pluto (https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl ) instead of Juypter you can very easily combine plots with reactive UI elements (like sliders, selectors, etc. - see https://github.com/fonsp/PlutoUI.jl ) to allow interactive exploration of data.

The only thing I think really isn't covered is PlutoUI (https://github.com/fonsp/PlutoUI.jl), which you can find in a sample notebook in Pluto.

At the bottom of the Rocket web site there are a few sponsors listed Kindness.ai, ohne Makler, 1Password, Signal Insight, and Edwin Olback. There are more sponsors on GitHub sponsors page

4. Rocket

If you want something simpler/more minimal, you could use https://rocket.rs/ for the backend and handle the front-end however you want.

I’m the author of https://kellnr.io. When I started working on Kellnr three years ago, https://rocket.rs was “the web framework” to use. Unfortunately, the project seems dead. Before adding more functionality using an unmaintained framework, I want to port Kellnr to https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum.

Or else you could of course just use https://rocket.rs/

Rust is a popular system programming language, known for its robust memory safety features and exceptional performance. While Rust was originally a system programming language, its application has evolved. Now you can see Rust in different app platforms, mobile apps, and of course, in web apps — both in the frontend and backend, with frameworks like Rocket, Axum, and Actix making it even easier to build web applications with Rust.

I've done some research but I have to admit that creating embedded devices is a totally new subject for me, but that is the point of the project - main goal is learning, and creating something is the secondary goal, so please bear with me and my knowledge of the subject. So, for the hardware I've seen many people recommending SMT32 family devices, but I've also read that anything with the Cortex-M processor can be suitable. Need more info on that. OS is a hard choice for me because on one hand I was thinking of Ubuntu Core but the device support is not really that good I think, so other options I've found are Tock and RIOT-OS, and I am gravitating towards the latter because it's main focus is on IOT devices. I've found frameworks like Rocket.rs for a web app, tauri.app for desktop app (which might not be needed but I still like the idea). Also found Tokio.rs which apparently will help with the networking. There was a discussion from the other members about using the Golioth cloud platform with Zephyr and C++, and I don't know if there are any other alternatives for Golioth that support Rust, I've found webthings.io but I am not sure if it's an alternative, or something else actually, so I would be happy to learn more about that. Again I want to hear your recommendations regarding anything that will help creating a project like that.