Use Rust for the front-end too

[elegaanz]

Rust can compile to WASM, so let's use it for front-end code as well.

To compile the front-end:

cargo install cargo-web
cd plume-front
cargo web deploy -o ../static

[trinity-1686a]

I've had a hard time testing this. I think it would be better to cargo web deploy without location, and do some processing (adding static/ to path so the new route is not required) and copying by ourselves in build.rs. Currently the instructions are polluting static/ with an index.html

[trinity-1686a]

I think this file souldn't be committed, it's auto generated and things like __cargo_web_snippet_199d5eb25dfe761687bcd487578eb7e636bd9650 are probably not reproducible between builds

[elegaanz]

You can now just use cargo web deploy, build.rs will do the rest.

[igalic]

how much faster is the resulting wasm compared to the previous Javascript?

[trinity-1686a]

@igalic considering our use-case, probably not much. The main advantage is the whole team being able to debug it I think

[elegaanz]

There may be better performances once with the future editor, especially when writing big articles. Another advantage is that we will be able to share code between backend and frontend if we need it.

[trinity-1686a]

@BaptisteGelez I see Travis failed because of cargo-web installation, you might be interested into this https://github.com/koute/cargo-web#using-cargo-web-on-travis .

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[trinity-1686a]

You should also update documentation, something like add "run cargo web deploy -p plume-front"