---
title: "Does Dioxus spark joy?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/does-dioxus-spark-joy--e9j94vddc
source_url: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/does-dioxus-spark-joy
type: article
source: "fasterthanli.me"
published: 2025-11-23T20:06:02.316Z
updated: 2025-11-23T20:06:26.692Z
tags: ["webdev", "frontend", "rust", "webassembly"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 20
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Does Dioxus spark joy?

**[fasterthanli.me](https://daily.dev/sources/fasterthanli)** · 12 min read · 20 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

An in-depth review of Dioxus, a Rust-based full-stack web framework that promises unified codebases across mobile, web, and desktop. The author explores Dioxus's server-side rendering, hydration process, and extensive hook system while comparing it to JavaScript frameworks like React and Svelte. Despite initial frustrations with debugging, hot-patching, and developer experience, the author acknowledges significant improvements in the main branch and recognizes the team's ambitious work on WASM tooling, though concludes the framework isn't quite ready to match JavaScript-based solutions in ergonomics.

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**@daviddomnguezromn** · 0 upvotes

> Maybe this technologies, also tauri, should be the future of desktop apps and not something like what we're seeing with electron. Who knows... But, even being a beginner in programming, I think having a powerful language to do the heavy lifting it's very important if you want to have a responsive app. But maybe it's me...

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