Rocket VS yew

Rocket: Rust's Type-Safe API Builder

To find answers, we wanted to get our hands dirty with three popular Rust web frameworks including rocket, axum, and actix, and get a feeling for their performance, features, and most importantly the developer experience.

In this post, we'll explore how to set up a local development environment for a Rust web application using the Rocket framework and Docker. The setup includes automatic recompilation and logging whenever you update your code. Here's how it works, step by step.

Today we talk about Rocket.rs, a web framework that uses Rust as a backend language. 🚀

I was surprised not to see Rocket (https://rocket.rs/) mentioned among the frameworks the author listed; I haven’t used it myself because I _like_ the more unopinionated axum/actix-web, but as I understand it its goals are much more in the vein of what the author wants in a batteries-included framework.

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.

Maybe, if you want those features, you would love yew and leptos which are other UI frameworks with Rust.

https://github.com/yewstack/yew

Rust? It's built clean from the ground up. The crates.io registry is full of modern, safe, composable libraries. You've got Axum, Rocket and Actix for backends, Leptos, Dioxus, and Yew for frontend, and more. Every library you use follows the same philosophy: safety, performance, and zero tolerance for ambiguity.

> To my knowledge there is not a Vue/React-WASM-type framework out there yet or any framework for building web apps in WASM (without starting from a blank canvas).

Not sure if these qualify, but these Rust web frameworks use wasm:

https://dioxuslabs.com/

https://leptos.dev/

https://yew.rs/

Yew

This has already been done; there are multiple languages/frameworks that compile directly to WASM with no JS such as https://yew.rs/

> You still need to access the DOM, which can't be done directly from WASM. Maybe someday it will happen?

You can access the DOM through JavaScript glue. These Rust WASM frameworks do that:

- Leptos: https://www.leptos.dev/

- Sycamore: https://sycamore.dev/

- Yew: https://yew.rs/

- Dioxus: https://dioxuslabs.com/

> Okay, so use canvas instead and do all UI inside WASM?

You can do that too. That's what this VB6 clone written in C# and compiled to WebAssembly does:

- https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

- https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6

> vague "JavaScript limitations"

It's not vague. Despite 28 years of effort optimizing JavaScript, WebAssembly outperforms JavaScript:

- https://nuenki.app/blog/bloom_filters_optimisation

- https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi...

- https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-...

[package] name = "wasm-dev" version = "0.1.0" edition = "2021" [dependencies] yew = { git = "https://github.com/yewstack/yew/", features = ["csr"] }

Yew is a framework for creating reliable and efficient web applications. Yew

I coded up a game of life implementation in rust and web assembly using https://yew.rs/ as an effort to sharpen my rust skills and it resulted as a fun toy. You can find the source here: https://gitlab.com/reedrichards/wvdom Enjoy!