ferro-json-ui

JSON-based server-driven UI schema types for the Ferro web framework.

Define UI as a JSON spec and have Ferro render it to HTML on the server — no frontend build step required.

Features

• 41 built-in components (Card, Form, DataTable, KanbanBoard, Modal, Tabs, Alert, Badge, Button, ...) and a plugin system for custom components
• Layout system (dashboard, app, auth) and ID-keyed element graph with parse-time structural validation
• Action system: navigate, submit form, call API, open modal
• Data binding via JSON Pointer ({"$data": "/path"}) and iteration directives ($each, $if)
• Compile-time schema validation via schemars on every typed *Props

Usage

Serve a spec from a Rust handler:

use ferro::{handler, JsonUi, Request, Response};

#[handler]
pub async fn dashboard(req: Request) -> Response {
    let data = serde_json::json!({});
    JsonUi::render_file("views/dashboard.json", data)
}

Or construct a spec in Rust:

use ferro_json_ui::{Spec, Element};

let spec = Spec::builder()
    .title("Demo")
    .element("root", Element::new("Text").prop("content", "Hi"))
    .build()
    .unwrap();

Documentation

Full documentation at docs.ferro-rs.dev.

License

MIT