Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers

1. dominator-workers-fluent-auth

   1 2 1 3.2 Rust

   yet another starter boilerplate

   

   This article makes several different points that would ideally each be tackled on their own.

   You don't need a router when you have pattern matching (just split the url and match on static and dynamic vars however you need)

   Auth is typically DIY in any language, or SaaS like Firebase/Auth0. It's not a language or framework problem, necessarily

   CSS/JS tooling makes no sense for many frontend Rust frameworks like Dominator, which is in Rust (not JS) and has its own approach to styling that works for it (e.g. attaching styles to signals, so they change on the fly)

   I get what the author is saying - in fact I've been around the block a couple times solving all the different points in the article and it is painful. For example, see https://github.com/dakom/dominator-workers-fluent-auth which does a lot of the stuff here on the Cloudflare workers framework (also adds another wishlist item - localization with Fluent)

   A "batteries included" full framework that does _everything_ is nice to have, but many real-world projects will want to replace those opinionated decisions and go the DIY route anyway. Rust is more than mature enough, even on the frontend web, to tackle all of that - if you know where to look (wasm-bindgen, etc.)

2. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

3. Rocket

   2 164 25,248 7.6 Rust

   A web framework for Rust.

   

   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.

4. shuttle

   3 59 6,563 9.2 Rust

   Build & ship backends without writing any infrastructure files.

   

   There is https://shuttle.rs. Not only a framework but a tool that can generate all the web boilerplate around it, sounds lazy enough for me!

5. poem

   4 32 4,054 9.2 Rust

   A full-featured and easy-to-use web framework with the Rust programming language.

   

   There is one: Poem[1]

   The author mentions flask but looking at the "What we need section", I don't think flask covers those. I hate Djago with a passion but if those are the requirements, I think Django is the one that closely resembles what the author is describing. So Poem is not a good candidate either in that regard. Poem is all in all, something that closely resembles FastAPI, which is actually a complement. I've tried half a dozen rust web frameworks and they all come with a ton of boilerplate fiddling with the initial setup. Which is a problem if you want to get things done fast. In that regard, poem nails it. Yes, actix has a considerably better performance but unless you are aiming for sub-30 millisecond responses, then actix is not what you should be looking at to begin with. Also if you crave a Pydantic, there is a crate that sort of does that for you: https://crates.io/crates/poem-openapi

   [1] https://github.com/poem-web/poem

6. hn-search-RAG

   5 6 29 9.4 TypeScript

   Hacker News Search and RAG built using Rust actix-web, minijinja, SolidJS, Vite, and Redis queue's

   

7. trieve

   6 20 2,341 10.0 Rust

   All-in-one platform for search, recommendations, RAG, and analytics offered via API

   

8. aho-corasick

   7 24 1,119 4.7 Rust

   A fast implementation of Aho-Corasick in Rust.

   

   https://github.com/BurntSushi/aho-corasick

   I've had a lot of fun playing with it, it was very nice & simple to use. It's also foundational in the Rust ecosystem, so it's well maintained.

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

10. tauri

    8 512 94,255 9.8 Rust

    Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.

    

11. TypeScript

    9 1,433 105,194 9.6 TypeScript

    TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

    

    > When did threading get added to JavaScript?

    Shared mutable state is a problem even in single threaded code (for example, modifying a collection you're iterating over)

    > And does Rust have type unions and intersections, interfaces, and mapped and conditional types?

    You can usually accomplish the same thing with enums/proc macros/traits of course—with the additional benefit that the type system is designed to be sound. Soundness is a non-goal of TypeScript[1], so once you start layering on those kinds of overly-clever types, you're generally just lulling yourself into a false sense of security.

    [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...

12. spring-rs

    10 2 761 9.6 Rust

    🍃spring-rs is a application framework written in rust inspired by java's spring-boot

    

    in case someone really need it like in the article https://github.com/spring-rs/spring-rs

13. deno

    11 489 103,533 10.0 Rust

    A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

    

14. Flutter

    12 1,263 171,260 10.0 Dart

    Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

    

15. graal-languages-demos

    13 1 76 8.3 Java

    Graal Languages - Demos and Guides

    

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