markup.rs VS MoonZoon

(Sailfish is fastest, but it's syntax is of the more traditional <%= msg %> flavour and Markup.rs is second-fastest with a Maud-like syntax but the author apparently doesn't have time to rewrite the syntax reference, so you have to follow a link from the open issue to an old version of the README.)

Maud or markup.rs for templating (I use the latter, and it is faster, but they're both fast and markup.rs is currently missing its full syntax documentation unless you dig through the revision history for the stale version. I'd recommend the former for you.)

For the sake of thoroughness, I should point out that Haml-like templating engines like Maud and markup.rs are even more concise.

https://maud.lambda.xyz/ or https://github.com/utkarshkukreti/markup.rs for server-side HTML templates that compile to Rust code

(eg. In Python, Genshi templates are too slow for me to feel comfortable using them, but they were the main way to get robust correctness checks for templates last time I evaluated my options. In Rust, Markup.rs or Maud are the second and third fastest templating solutions, as I remember, and they give even more well-formedness guarantees for HTML than Genshi.)

There are various templating solutions that use syntax derived from the host language, like Maud or markup.rs for Rust, the E factory API for lxml for Python, etc.

You can have similar features to Phoenix Live View by using Turbo from Hotwire with your favorite template engine in Rust. Contrary to what the video presentation on the Hotwire main page leaves you to believe, Hotwire works with any template engine from any language, not just Rails. Markup.rs and Turbo from Hotwire should compose quite nicely.

They are both async and made for GUI -- in case of rust-signals WebGUI, provided by dominator and MoonZoon.

Fullstack Framework: MoonZoon, Leptos

Dominator is more of a low-level framework for manipulating the DOM. There's also MoonZoon (https://github.com/MoonZoon/MoonZoon) which uses dominator but provides a more complete experience.

Alternative 2)thin client in browser and server in rust. If you really want to limit it to web client and web server, possibly try a newer approach with moonzoon. https://github.com/MoonZoon/MoonZoon/tree/main/examples/todomvc

I don't really know Rust so clearly I'm not the target audience, but this thing where you define all the styles using chains of methods seems kinda clumsy to me. And if it's all turning into CSS in the end you presumably still need to understand CSS concepts in order to make the layout you want using this syntax. So I'm not sure this is really saving you from learning HTML and CSS. That said it does appear to be compiling your Rust to web assembly (like Blazor does) which is pretty cool.

I've come across MoonZoon (https://github.com/MoonZoon/MoonZoon) which seems like an interesting full stack framework, but I'm wondering about a solution that would allow choosing both frontend and backend frameworks.

There’s also https://github.com/MoonZoon/MoonZoon which is built on dominator. It’s in fairly early stage development but offers a higher level interface than dominator.