dioxus: Build Cross-Platform Apps with Rust

Overview

Dioxus is a Rust framework for building interactive applications across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. It uses a component-based UI model with RSX markup and signals-based state, aiming to let developers share application code instead of maintaining separate platform-specific frontends.

It also offers a path from UI development to fullstack applications, with server-side rendering and server functions. Dioxus is a fit for Rust developers who want a unified toolkit and are comfortable adopting a framework whose platform capabilities include experimental options.

Key Features

• Build interfaces in Rust with components, RSX markup, and signals-based state.
• Target web, desktop, and mobile from a shared codebase, with platform-specific native access available.
• Use web rendering, webviews, server-side rendering, or experimental WGPU rendering options.
• Add backend behavior through server functions and integrations with axum.
• Develop with the dx CLI, including a development server and asset hot-reloading.
• Bundle applications for web, desktop, and mobile deployment.
• Use HTML and CSS styling, with built-in TailwindCSS support.

Use Cases

• Rust developers building a web interface who want to keep UI logic in Rust and use server-side rendering or WebAssembly.
• Small teams targeting desktop and web that want to share UI and application logic across platforms.
• Developers prototyping Android or iOS apps in Rust who need access to native APIs through JNI or Objective-C.
• Fullstack teams adding interactive pages and server-side functionality to a Rust application.

Getting Started

Install the CLI and start a project or serve an example:

curl -fsSL https://dioxuslabs.com/install.sh | bash
dx serve

See the repository README and Dioxus documentation for setup details and platform-specific guidance.

Alternatives

• fyne: Fyne builds desktop and mobile interfaces in Go, while Dioxus uses Rust and also targets the web.
• ice.js: ice.js builds web applications with React and JavaScript, while Dioxus uses Rust and also targets desktop and mobile.

Considerations

• The README identifies WGPU rendering and Rust hot-patching as experimental; verify their suitability before relying on them.
• Web, desktop, and mobile use different rendering approaches and platform tooling, so a shared codebase does not remove all platform-specific setup or testing.
• The README notes that examples on the main branch target the git version of Dioxus and the CLI. Stable-release users may need the examples from the 0.6 branch.
• The project reports 813 open issues, so check current issue and release activity for the specific capabilities your application depends on.