web_app

Build your front-end page in Rust with WebAssembly

Note It is not possible to run Meilisearch in the browser without a server. This demo uses the Rust SDK in a browser using WASM, and communicates with a Meilisearch instance that is running on a remote server.

This example is a clone of crates.meilisearch.com, but the front-end is written in Rust! The Rust source files are compiled into WebAssembly and so can be readable by the browsers.

Checking

If you only want to check if this example compiles, you can run:

cargo build

Building

To build this example, you need wasm-pack.
You can install wasm-pack with this command:

curl https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-pack/installer/init.sh -sSf | sh

wasm-pack build . --target=web --no-typescript

The compiled files will be stored in the examples/web_app/pkg folder.

Using

Theoretically, you could just open the examples/web_app/pkg/index.html file but due to browsers' security restrictions, you need a web server. For example:

python3 -m http.server 8080

And then go to the http://localhost:8080/ URL in your browser.