Anyone from a Typescript/React background who tried out Rust for the 1st time?

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  • book

    The Rust Programming Language

  • If you choose to learn Rust, then I'd strongly recommend reading the first ~15 chapters of https://doc.rust-lang.org/book before getting stuck in to a real project. It covers most of the things you'll likely be unfamilar as TS dev (such as what the Stack and the Heap are, and how ownership semantics work).

  • SoundcoreManager

    Control Soundcore headphones with the power of Rust.

  • I'm currently building a Tauri app (Project Link) using React/Typescript for the UI and Rust for the backend. Typescript is the perfect stepping stone before learning Rust IMO and learning Rust helps you understand the abstraction cost that you are paying with JS/TS. If you ever build a backend with JS/TS i strongly suggest you to try out Actix/Axum.

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • slm

    Slim, Jade like template engine for node

  • For templating, Maud is fast, gives compile-time well-formedness guarantees, and outputs minified HTML by default as a side-effect of it being based on Rust macros. (It's of a similar design philosophy to Slim and Haml)

  • axum

    Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper

  • For the framework itself, I use actix-web but Axum is also popular.

  • sea-orm

    🐚 An async & dynamic ORM for Rust

  • Last I checked, authentication was weak. SeaORM is probably the most mature option if you're looking for an ORM like you'd find in another ecosystem (if you're willing to explore alternative designs, try using the underlying SQLx directly).

  • maud

    :pencil: Compile-time HTML templates for Rust

  • For templating, Maud is fast, gives compile-time well-formedness guarantees, and outputs minified HTML by default as a side-effect of it being based on Rust macros. (It's of a similar design philosophy to Slim and Haml)

  • Haml

    HTML Abstraction Markup Language - A Markup Haiku

  • For templating, Maud is fast, gives compile-time well-formedness guarantees, and outputs minified HTML by default as a side-effect of it being based on Rust macros. (It's of a similar design philosophy to Slim and Haml)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • actix-web

    Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

  • For the framework itself, I use actix-web but Axum is also popular.

  • too-many-lists

    Learn Rust by writing Entirely Too Many linked lists

  • ...and follow The Book with Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists. It really helps to solidify your understanding of how the borrow checker thinks.

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