Rust browser client?

[arctic-hen7]

Hey! This project looks awesome, but it'd be really useful if there could be a native Rust client that can be compiled to Wasm that could be used instead of edgesearch-client in Rust web apps. This might make use of web-sys and the native browser Fetch API to avoid bringing in any unnecessary libraries like reqwest that would bloat things. If this isn't an antipattern for the project, I'd be happy to submit a PR on this!

[reneleonhardt]

@arctic-hen7 Just curious, how big would reqwest be and why would that size be a problem?
It seems reqwest is very popular these days and it offers WASM support already, libraries like ollama-rs are using it without problem it seems...

[arctic-hen7]

I'm not sure about how large of a dependency reqwest is today, though when I opened this issue in 2022 I recall it being relatively large (they may have optimised to provider a thinner layer over the browser APIs since then). The general issue though is that Wasm bundle splitting is still not nearly as simple as JS bundle splitting (borderline impossible back in 2022), so when you're building your whole frontend in Rust, every extra dependency you add is extra time before interactivity (assuming you're doing SSR of some kind to get faster initial loads). So, if a dependency can be avoided, it's generally good to do so. That said, I'm not sure how heavy reqwest would be these days, and I'm not working so much in this space anymore, so feel free to close this issue if it's not relevant to others!