This is a template repository that provides a starting point for developing a web application with a JS front end and a Rust back end. It requires you to have the Rust nightly compiler installed.
Press the "use this template" button above and then complete the following form.
Clone the resulting repository, call yarn install, and off you go!
Note: all directories below are relative to the project root
First, Webpack and Babel compile the front end sources in src/ which are output to dist/.
Then we compile and run the Rust server found in src/.
The server is configured to serve the static files output by Webpack using a special route.
This route will resolve the requested URI inside of the dist/public directory.
For example, if the client requests example.com/public/js/main.js, the server looks for dist/public/js/main.js.
The front end client is a single page application in React with App.js as its entry point.
It uses ReactDOM to render inside the <App /> element found in public/index.html.
There is no directory structure inside of src/ so that you are free to create one that suits your needs.
The server uses a framework called Rocket for routing.
There are a couple of routes already set up: one for the index route and another to serve static files requested by the front end client.
Webpack and Cargo both use a similar (and co-existable) directory structure, i.e. they both use the src/ directory, but Cargo outputs to target/.
You can build and run each component (front/back) and serve using yarn commands:
yarn build # Webpack + Babel (Frontend)
yarn compile # cargo build (Backend)
yarn serve # yarn build + cargo run (Both)- WASM and WASI! This is really the impetus behind this effort.
- Default tests and/or test skeleton?
- Defaults for 404 etc.