sauron

Sauron is a versatile web framework and library for building client-side and/or server-side web applications with strong focus on ergonomics, simplicity and elegance. This allows you to write least amount of code possible, and focus more on the business logic rather than the inner details of the framework.

Sauron is inspired by elm-lang and is following The Elm Architecture.

Features

server-side rendering
static site generation
progressive rendering
web components / custom-element
html syntax for writing views
elegant macro to write styles
batteries included

Devoid of unnecessary framework complexities

no framework specific cli needed
no template specific language as everything is in rust.
- Model and update function is all in rust.
- view? in rust
- events handling? rust
- styling? believe it or not: rust

In a sauron application, there is only the model, view and update. The model is your application state. The view describes how to present the model to the user. The update function describes how to update the model, this uses message which contains the data needed for updating the model.

Counter example

In your src/lib.rs

use sauron::{
    html::text, html::units::px, jss, node, wasm_bindgen, Application, Cmd, Node, Program,
};

enum Msg {
    Increment,
    Decrement,
    Reset,
}

struct App {
    count: i32,
}

impl App {
    fn new() -> Self {
        App { count: 0 }
    }
}

impl Application for App {

    type MSG = Msg;

    fn view(&self) -> Node<Msg> {
        node! {
            <main>
                <input type="button"
                    value="+"
                    on_click=|_| {
                        Msg::Increment
                    }
                />
                <button class="count" on_click=|_|{Msg::Reset} >{text(self.count)}</button>
                <input type="button"
                    value="-"
                    on_click=|_| {
                        Msg::Decrement
                    }
                />
            </main>
        }
    }

    fn update(&mut self, msg: Msg) -> Cmd<Msg> {
        match msg {
            Msg::Increment => self.count += 1,
            Msg::Decrement => self.count -= 1,
            Msg::Reset => self.count = 0,
        }
        Cmd::none()
    }

    fn stylesheet() -> Vec<String> {
        vec![jss! {
            "body":{
                font_family: "verdana, arial, monospace",
            },

            "main":{
                width: px(30),
                height: px(100),
                margin: "auto",
                text_align: "center",
            },

            "input, .count":{
                font_size: px(40),
                padding: px(30),
                margin: px(30),
            }
        }]
    }
}

#[wasm_bindgen(start)]
pub fn start() {
    Program::mount_to_body(App::new());
}

index.html

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
    <title>Counter</title>
    <script type=module>
        import init from './pkg/counter.js';
        await init().catch(console.error);
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

In Cargo.toml, specify the crate-type to be cdylib

[package]
name = "counter"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"

[lib]
crate-type = ["cdylib"]

[dependencies]
sauron = "0.61.0"

Prerequisite:

cargo install wasm-pack
cargo install basic-http-server

Build using

wasm-pack build --target web --release

Serve using

basic-http-server -a 0.0.0.0:4000

Then navigate to http://localhost:4000

Head over to the getting-started.md for the full tutorial.

For more details on the commands to build and serve, look on examples on this repo, each has scripts on how to build and run them.

Demo examples

todomvc The todomvc example
data-viewer - A resizable spreadsheet CSV data viewer
svg-clock - A clock drawn using SVG and window tick event.
ultron code-editor - A web-base text-editor with syntax highlighting
hackernews-sauron - A hackernews clone showcasing the feature of sauron to write web applications that can work with or without javascript.