Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere

Re:Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere by rsp1984 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @06:35AM (#34147796)

Maybe it's because I'm not very experienced with web development but I have a hard time wrapping my head around this and unfortunately the tutorials didn't enlighten me either.

How is this used on a very high level? Is this a pure front-end framework? So, let's say I write an app using Dioxus. Then the input are .rs files but what is the output? For desktops: an executable? For web: a folder with HTML/JS/CSS?

And how does this work under the hood? Is it drawing all UI elements from scratch using Canvas/WebGL? Or is it more like a translator that fills a regular DOM at runtime and uses that for rendering?

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Re:Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere by jkelleyrtp on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:04AM (#34148716)

Dioxus is HTML native so it speaks in native HTML elements to solve the flutter problem.

It’s written in Rust so it doesn’t need a JS engine which gives it this huge portability. Your intuition on the outputs is correct. For the web, you get a folder of HTML, CSS, and the tiniest amount of bootstrapping JavaScript. For most other platforms you get a small binary that is self contained.

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