zig web frontend

[vestal creek]

hello, I am looking to make a web app with a zig backend (jetzig, zap, ...) and have a zig frontend aswell, but since there is no SPA framework like it exists in other languages I am trying to find options here are some I found:

• using templating language and serve directly from backend the full html page
• TUI https://github.com/rockorager/libvaxis (i would have to use the std.http client)
• GUI Library https://github.com/capy-ui/capy (std.http client as well)
• Simply a CLI (std.http client)
• Or I thought about using WebAssembly, I know people made interfacesin C ... with WebAssembly but I have no idea how they did it and if it possible to do it in Zig, any idea ?

Obviously, I could do a simple html+js app or use react or whatever but I want it to be as much Zig as possible.
Note: I want my backend to serve HTTP

[naive stump]

https://www.jetzig.dev/

there's this

haven't tried it

just heard of it

[vestal creek]

Yeah I have tried it it serves the same purpose as the one I mentioned

well I just realized I mentioned it ahahaha, it could work but with a templating language

[naive stump]

well I'm working on a framework like Blazor but for Zig

like writing full stack zig web applications

when I say "working on", I mean I'm tryna figure out how it would work currently

[vestal creek]

you would have to work with webassembly right ?

im pretty sure blazor uses webassembly

same for rust frameworks like yew, leptos, ...

I thought about doing something like this aswell, but it seems like a veryyy complicated task (I asked chatgpt what had to be done and it seemed like a lot of work)

but your project seem very interesting, have you started something ?

[naive stump]

yeah

[naive stump]

not really

nothing that i've pushed

[vestal creek]

if you happend to push it tell me im very intersted to contribute aswell if i have the capacites 🙂

[naive stump]

https://github.com/edqx/zodiac I have a repo though

but there's nothing important there right now

[vestal creek]

ty going to take a look

[naive stump]

but I wouldn't rely on that if you want to make a website, I'd just use something like jetzig or whatever it was