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Ahoi Library Bridges Rust/Wasm Reactive State With SolidJS, React, Vue, and Svelte

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A developer has released Ahoi, an open-source library designed to manage reactive state in Rust/WebAssembly and expose it cleanly to JavaScript frontend frameworks. The project consists of a Rust crate that handles the core reactivity engine and separate npm packages acting as thin bridges for SolidJS, React, Vue, and Svelte. State is declared in Rust using a 'Stock' struct, while typed signals and commands flow between Rust and JS through 'Hail' and 'Tell' enums, giving JavaScript fully typed reactive values without manual bridging code. Ahoi was created to fill a gap between hand-rolling Rust-JS bridges and adopting a full Rust frontend framework like Leptos or Dioxus. The library is an early release, available on GitHub, crates.io, and npm, with the author actively seeking community feedback.

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