mogwai VS sycamore

Thanks for taking the time to read this! Please let me know here or at the repo (or on any of the other channels you may find me) if you have any concerns, bugs, feature requests, etc.

I’ve been working on the 0.6 release of mogwai, which is a library for building GUI views. This release is all about making the library domain agnostic, meaning it can be used to define views in any GUI domain (ie browser, native, gtk, wgpu game). I’m also trying to trim down the API and improve the RSX macro.

Here's a link to Mogwai: https://github.com/schell/mogwai - its Github readme also has other benchmark numbers (also from TodoMVC but with newer versions of Mogwai) that shows it faster than Preact and Mithril.

I solved the SSR problem in my library mogwai using conditional compilation to include an encoding of the DOM element when compiled for non-wasm targets, which you can see here). The extra field ServerNode allows me to provide an html_string function on non-wasm targets. On wasm targets the html_string function is backed by the DOM element's outerHtml method.

Perseus is a fast frontend web development framework for Rust with built-in support for reactivity using Sycamore, server-side rendering, and much more. Sycamore is a frontend library that allows you to build interactive user interfaces with Rust. I’d say that Perseus is to Sycamore as Next.js is to React, so it’ll be helpful for you to have a fair understanding of Sycamore before jumping into using Perseus — although it’s not necessary to follow along in this article.

Now, I considered whether to spend more time fixing everything that now failed in sycamore 0.9. But there are major changes ahead which would require yet another major refactoring, to the point where I am not sure whether it would not be more of a rewrite than a refactoring, given my previous experiences with sycamore.

Sycamore.

Sycamore, Yew, or Seed if you want a full-stack solution. (Or Leptos if you want something that's faster but less mature.)

There are others, like Sycamore, similar story as Leptos but imo Leptos is (currently) more ergonomic.

Sycamore is a reactive library for creating web apps in Rust and WebAssembly. https://github.com/sycamore-rs/sycamore

I tried my first project with yew as frontend. And my experience was after some time similar to the already mentioned ones: It is a little more to take on than I actually wanted. And some things were not straightforward to achieve. I switched to sycamore for the other projects now and I am much more satisfied (but this could also be since I have some more experience in the Rust ecosystem by now). Changing from yew to sycamore was pretty easy and I can achieve most of the tasks with less code.

If you want to do fullstack/SPA stuff, check out Sycamore, Seed, and Yew.

If you want to do front-end SPA development, take a look at Yew, Seed, or Sycamore.

I have written a front-end (website) application in Rust that is used internally in production. I wouldn't recommend to use something like sycamore, leptos, dioxus, yew for you next puplic web-app now but i can absolutely see how this is used in the future as those libs mature.