Yew

Few weeks ago I wrote rainbow, a color picker in plain old HTML/CSS/JS. I needed a color palette as quick as possible so I made this tool the quick-and-dirty way.

I then gave this tool some thoughts, rewrote it in Rust 🦀 and called it bifröst. It’s a single page application in WASM and it’s loaded with many more features than rainbow.

Let me tell you something : it’s HEAVY! The first iteration weighed 1.4Mo. Way too much for such a small application.

This blog post is about the settings and tools to divide its weigh by three.

My latest side-project requires a web front-end.

I’ve heard there are many frameworks in many languages for this. And to be honest, this is an understatement.

I first went for Svelte because a friend recommended this to me. I then had some issues with it an tried Solid which was also a no-go in the end. Both are Javascript framework and the node_module hell is actually a thing.

I may have mentioned it before on this site but: I enjoy Rust 🦀 quite a lot. So I searched for a solution on this side of the force and found out that Yew has matured quite a lot since I first saw it.

This is the technical solution I went with. And along the way, someone on Discord asked for a cheap way to host such an application. Here is my take at this question: can’t make cheaper than free thanks to Gitlab pages.