Artifact usecase: requirements for rewriting artifact's web-ui from elm to rust

[vitiral]

I make the artifact application, which uses Elm as the frontend. I'm currently doing a redesign+rewrite of pretty much the whole library, of which there are 4 stages. I have completed the first stage, and rewriting the web-ui will be the final stage (so a rewrite is a little ways off)

I was wondering if yew could meet my use case. Artifact feels like it would be a good candidate for a "real world implementation" as it is tiny, and almost 100% elm.

Okay, so here are my use cases:

• Static Site Generation: artifact currently "compiles" the web-app as both a static site and a single-page-server-backed application. (hack ahead: it then injects the user's artifacts as json by replacing the "ARTIFACTS_HERE" string in the static-binary 🤕 ). Static site generation is basically a necessary requirement -- although I think I could maintain both the elm-ui AND the yew-ui for a period of time (using elm for static site generation only).
• Embedding C and/or javascript: I'm not sure what the webassembly story here is, but I assume yew can call out to javascript and use the result. In particular, I need libraries for markdown and graphviz rendering. That's about it. (note: graphviz is written in C, so being able to compile it into webassembly and use FFI bindings would be absolutely awesome if that were possible).
• Near feature compatibility with Elm: I use a lot of the "elm architecture" for my application, it would be nice to have a 1to1 corespondence as much as possible to make migrating easier.

Thanks! This library is super exciting to me -- keep it up!

[koute]

Static Site Generation

Although I don't know what your exact requirements are this will be supported by the cargo-web in the near future, so once that happens you'll be able to to compile yew-using apps into an easily deployable package.

Embedding C and/or javascript

You can easily call out to the JavaScript using stdweb. As for calling out into C, well, you'd probably need to do it through Emscripten somehow.

[vitiral]

I forgot to state another benefit of artifact+yew -- artifact's backend/etc is already written in rust!

| Although I don't know what your exact requirements are

I just need to be able to:

• compile a static binary (that can be served from something that "just serves an index.html")
• be able to inject data into that binary somehow. What would be best is if there were some way that the library expected "I can find what I need to be in CWD/data.json".

Cool, the graphviz library I currently use is just a hacked javascript project compiled from C -- so feature parity is perfect to get started.

Thanks for the input. I look forward to "rewriting it in rust"!

[vitiral]

(Feel free to reopen if you find these usecases useful to keep on the tracker, buf I consider the questions resolved).