In this chapter, you will see how Rust can be used to build the frontend of a web application, as an alternative to using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (typically using a JavaScript frontend framework, such as React) or another language generating JavaScript code (such as Elm or TypeScript).
To build a Rust app for a web browser, the Rust code must be translated to WebAssembly code, which can be supported by all modern web browsers. The capability to translate Rust code into WebAssembly code is now included in the stable Rust compiler.
To develop large projects, a web frontend framework is needed. In this chapter, the Yew framework will be presented. It is a framework that supports the development of frontend web applications, using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern, and generating WebAssembly code.
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