Hi everyone!

I started learning Rust a couple days ago and I’m having fun with it. I’m trying to learn both for fun but also I plan on going back to Uni at the end of this year after roughly 5 years out of education.

I’m trying to think of projects I can do down the line to practice and for fun. Something I really want to build is a full stack web app (I have some basic knowledge of front end.)

Since I’m trying to learn rust, I was thinking of using something like Actix to build the server.

As for database stuff, I was thinking of postgres since that seems very in demand rn!

As for front end, I’m torn between using something like React which I’m somewhat familiar with or trying something like Yew to write it all in Rust!

I mostly would like some feedback on my plan (I understand there aren’t many details given, this is mostly an idea a couple months down the line), if i need to change my scope, if theres anything I should change, any resources that might be helpful, or really any advice!

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    A bit of context, I maintain a small laundry list of open source utilities I’ve built up over time… when I want to try out a new language I just take one of my libraries and convert it into the new language. I’ve found that generally does a good job of highlighting language shortcomings and specialties (especially since my packages lean heavily on syntactic sugaring) while also giving me an end product I can run up against a nice suite of robust tests.

    I might suggest finding a small (like a dozen source files tops) library you like and just converting it into the new language as you’ll be forced to deal with more serious problems than a toy project while also potentially producing something useful on the far side.