[klabb3]

> I love web dev using rust! I use sveltekit and proxy all requests to /api to a rust backend

I think this most people would call this backend-, api- or service development. Especially if your api endpoint does not do anything web specific except http.

Anyway, how do you share types between the backend and frontend? Are you rawdogging json?

[j45]

Rust could probably generate the HTML.

[Prosammer]

I've been playing with loco.rs to do this! Really cool, let's you use htmx or sveltekit (or whatever you want)

[sureglymop]

Sounds interesting! Do you have an example project? It seems to be quite opinionated.

[Prosammer]

Yeah quite opinionated! I don't have an example project at the moment, but here's a youtube video from loco.rs that someone might find interesting: https://loco.rs/casts/007-htmx/

[sureglymop]

Yeah, that makes sense. I've only had fullstack web dev jobs using node, thus the phrasing but you're totally right.

I use the ts-rs crate, which adds a derive(TS) macro for types in rust and generates typescript types. It works so far but my side projects are only medium sized. But I'm sure there are other options too.