This is a partial rewrite of cats-of-asia in Leptos.
I went just as far as necessary to satisfy my curiosity about Leptos and Rust/wasm in the browser in general. It was fun and quite productive in the beginning. But then I struggled to properly integrate with leaflet.js from Rust and ended up writing all of the popup rendering in DOM-manipulating Javascript again.
Then I somehow ended up in borrow checker hell when implementing the <Favorites> component and
only got out of it with a lot of un-Leptos seeming code and hacks. The result works, but the
code sucks.
I couldn't be arsed to do the backend stuff, so this relies on fetching a JSON with image metadata from https://catsof.asia/images.
Overall I think Leptos looks promising for complex frontends that don't need to interact with JS libraries which don't fit into it's rendering philosophy. Considering that I still don't know much about managing lifetimes in Rust I got pretty far with it. Also ChatGPT was much more useful than I expected for this pretty niche tech.