Dioxus Has a Free API: Write React-Style UIs in Rust That Run Everywhere — Web, Desktop, Mobile

A mobile developer spent six months building the same feature three times: once in Swift for iOS, once in Kotlin for Android, and once in React for the web version. The logic was identical. Only the UI framework was different. He kept thinking there had to be a better abstraction. Dioxus is that abstraction. It is a cross-platform UI framework written in Rust that uses a React-inspired component model — but compiles to native desktop, mobile, web (via WASM), and server-side rendering from the same codebase. Write once, ship everywhere, without sacrificing performance. What Dioxus Actually Does Dioxus is an open-source Rust UI library inspired by React's component model but built on top of a virtual DOM implemented in Rust. Components look and feel like React functional components. Props, state hooks, event handlers, and lifecycle effects all map to familiar concepts — but the underlying runtime is Rust, not JavaScript. The framework targets multiple renderers through a single API: Web