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Implementation of the Elm architecture in Rust
Source code at GitHub https://github.com/sindreij/willow
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This is a tech-demo. Feel free to learn from it and steal the ideas (if you like them), but it’s not something that should (or can) be used directly

Willow

Section titled “Willow”

Willow is an experiment to see if it is possible to create a “elm-like” API using Rust.

Demo / Examples

Section titled “Demo / Examples”
  • Counter [source code]!(examples/counter/src/app.rs). Demo
  • TodoMVC [source code]!(examples/todomvc/src/app.rs). Demo

Quickstart

Section titled “Quickstart”
Terminal window
cd examples/counter/


# See https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-pack/issues/252
ln -s ../../target target
cargo install wasm-pack
wasm-pack build


cd www/
yarn
yarn start

Backstory

Section titled “Backstory”

See my blogpost for the how and why I built this.

License

Section titled “License”

Licensed under either of these:

Contributing

Section titled “Contributing”

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution you intentionally submit for inclusion in the work, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual-licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.