What does HackerNews think of create-rust-app?
Set up a modern rust+react web app by running one command.
I’ve integrated vite with a rust backend[1] and so many people have asked me how I managed to achieve SSR because they equate SSR with render+hydrate but it’s really just classical SSR. I think I can finally make their dreams come true because of this.
[1] https://github.com/Wulf/create-rust-app
[2] https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2021/10/08/building-a-startup-wi...
I know this is not realistic, but the only thing rust is missing is faster compilation times. To be fair, it’s already super fast.
I was adding a repl[1] to create-react-app[2] (trying to achieve something like RoR’s console) and it took way too long for it to boot simply because the dependencies for something like a full scale web app take long to compile. Even with incremental compilation, that first boot time was too much.
In case you want to try rust and react together: