yew

Yes, but it can send commands to construct and manipulate DOM. See - https://github.com/yewstack/yew

Both virtual dom and template compilers exist in Rust: Yew for instance uses both to provide a React-like experience: https://github.com/yewstack/yew JSX is easy to implement in Rust due to the fact that macros are first class citizen in Rust.

There are already several libraries that allow you to write React-like SPAs in the browser via WASM. The two largest are Yew (Rust), Vugu (Vue-esque but with Go instead of JS), and Blazor (C#) https://github.com/yewstack/yew https://github.com/vugu/vugu https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor All are perfectly viable for production apps as of today and not much more difficult than writing React, given you have some familiarity with their implementation language.

Also Yew[1], which is a bit different, but a relatively flushed out component model. [1] https://github.com/yewstack/yew

Also yew. It's more web focussed, but it works great running in a WebView for a local application with RPC to a background server running locally. https://github.com/yewstack/yew

Interestingly, I recently encountered an issue in the wild where these two recursion limits are both prominently involved. Yew, the Wasm web framework, provides an html! macro that allows you to write templates that look like HTML within your Rust code. The macro is notorious for requiring the macro expansion `recursion_limit` to be raised even for fairly small templates. Now, if you happen to have a syntax error in a template and ask cargo to return the build errors as JSON, it will diligently report every macro expansion that led to the problem as a nested structure. Which is what the commonly used cargo-web tool does, so when it sees JSON with 128+ levels of macro expansion details describing a build error (again, not uncommon with Yew's html! macro), serde_json fails to parse it with `ErrorCode::RecursionLimitExceeded` and cargo-web p

Yup. You can find the current editor work here: https://github.com/amethyst/atelier-editor It is in very early stages. We are developing it as a WASM app that runs in a system webview, or can be accessed via a regular web browser for a more cloud-y experience. I'll take this opportunity to promote the awesome Yew project (https://github.com/DenisKolodin/yew) which is what we use for the frontend.