How do you manage stdweb?

[genderev]

Hi! I noticed that you built your (quite nice looking) personal site with stdweb. I can see that stdweb is a dependency in your Cargo.toml, I'm just reluctant to use stdweb because the examples do not run. Does the crate still function overall?

I've been having trouble with stdweb and I would like to be able to use it. How do you use it? Do you not get the errors that I have been getting?

[rickycodes]

@genderev

hiya! thanks for the compliment. stdweb hasn't been maintained in a while and i think you may be right in that it's not working with the more recent nightly toolchains

i actually first built this website back in 2018. if you're looking to start a new rust -> wasm project there might be better alternatives for you.

that said i was able to get the project working (with a not broken wasm) locally just now by switching around my rust toolchain using rustup:

# install an old toolchain
rustup toolchain install nightly-2019-08-01

# set the old toolchain as default:
rustup default nightly-2019-08-01

after doing that I was able to build the site fine using the ./build.sh file:

$ ./build.sh 
Generate + minify HTML...
npx: installed 12 in 1.347s
HTML deployed to static/index.html
Building...
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.01s
    Processing "rickycodes.wasm"...
    Finished processing of "rickycodes.wasm"!
The `rickycodes` was deployed to "/home/ricky/projects/www/target/deploy"!
Minify...
JavaScript deployed to target/deploy/*.js
Done.

The http server also still seems to be working:

$ ./build.sh --serve
Starting up local server...
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.07s
    Processing "rickycodes.wasm"...
    Finished processing of "rickycodes.wasm"!

If you need to serve any extra files put them in the 'static' directory
in the root of your crate; they will be served alongside your application.
You can also put a 'static' directory in your 'src' directory.

Your application is being served at '/rickycodes.js'. It will be automatically
rebuilt if you make any changes in your code.

You can access the web server at `http://127.0.0.1:8000`.

using an older toolchain will also work for the examples (i would imagine)