A Rust library providing Web API bindings and seamless interoperability between Rust and JavaScript for client-side web development.
stdweb is a Rust library that provides bindings to Web APIs and enables seamless interoperability between Rust and JavaScript for client-side web development. It allows developers to write web applications in Rust by embedding JavaScript code, calling DOM APIs, and exporting Rust functions to JavaScript, targeting WebAssembly and asm.js compilation.
Rust developers building client-side web applications, especially those interested in using WebAssembly, avoiding direct JavaScript, or creating libraries callable from JavaScript.
Developers choose stdweb for its comprehensive Web API coverage, ergonomic JavaScript interop via the `js!` macro, strong integration with Rust's ecosystem (like serde), and support for modern compilation targets like WebAssembly without relying on Emscripten.
A standard library for the client-side Web
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The `js!` macro allows embedding JavaScript code directly in Rust with serde integration for seamless data marshaling, as shown in examples like alerting messages and returning values.
Provides full access to DOM, events, canvas, WebSockets, and more, closely following JavaScript conventions, enabling Rust to handle web standards natively.
Leverages serde for serialization and supports exporting Rust functions to JavaScript via `#[js_export]`, making it easy to integrate with existing Rust libraries.
Compiles to WebAssembly using native backend or Emscripten, and to asm.js, offering performance benefits and flexibility for different deployment environments.
Requires cargo-web for WebAssembly compilation, adding complexity to the build process and potential configuration issues, especially for native wasm32-unknown-unknown targets.
Frequent breaking changes in updates, as noted in the changelog (e.g., version 0.4 had significant renames and return type changes), which can disrupt ongoing projects.
Focuses on low-level Web APIs, so developers must build UI components and state management from scratch, unlike frameworks with pre-built solutions.