Dioxus Has a Free Framework: Build Cross-Platform Apps in Rust — Web, Desktop, Mobile, and TUI From One Codebase

You need an app that runs on web, desktop, and mobile. React Native covers web and mobile but desktop is Electron — 200MB of Chromium per app. Flutter covers all three but you're learning Dart. What if you could write one Rust codebase and compile to all platforms natively? Dioxus does exactly that. What Dioxus Actually Does Dioxus is a Rust UI framework inspired by React. You write components with a familiar JSX-like syntax (using Rust macros), manage state with hooks, and handle events — all in Rust. The same code compiles to WebAssembly (browser), native desktop (no Electron), mobile (iOS/Android), and terminal UI. Dioxus uses a virtual DOM like React, but the renderer is pluggable. For web, it renders to the real DOM via WASM. For desktop, it uses a native webview (5MB, not 200MB Electron). For mobile, it targets native views. For TUI, it renders to the terminal. Dioxus includes a CLI tool ( dx ) for hot-reloading, asset management, and cross-platform builds. Open-source under MIT/