# rust-js

Looking at projects that are good candidates for being re-written in rust / webassembly!

## moment https://www.npmjs.com/package/moment

https://www.npmjs.com/package/moment-timezone

could build off work in rust:
https://github.com/chronotope/chrono

## glob https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob#readme

see also:

- https://github.com/mrmlnc/fast-glob
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/minimatch
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/micromatch
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/multimatch

## js-yaml https://www.npmjs.com/package/js-yaml

Ok, this is just obvious. Could lean heavily on yaml-rust

## handlebars https://www.npmjs.com/package/handlebars

It's being worked on here (to some degree)

https://github.com/sunng87/handlebars-rust

Still, a drop in replacement would be cool?

Other templating libs:

- https://www.npmjs.com/package/jade
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/mustache
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/pug
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/nunjucks
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/swig
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/hogan.js

## postcss and associated plugins

like the babel clone, really hard and the whole ecosystem needs to be rewritten. nah.

## qs https://www.npmjs.com/package/qs

querystring parsing. it's _maybe_ a good candidate (parsing library), but it's pretty ugly imo, and I think that

## mime https://www.npmjs.com/package/mime

probably not

## marked https://www.npmjs.com/package/marked

Like js-yaml, probably a good candidate. Someone else has _surely_ done the work of making a markdown parser in rust already.

## validator https://www.npmjs.com/package/validator

Eh, not too keen on this. The biggest benefit is that I get to take advantage of rust's compile time perfect hashing jam to make lookup tables fast.

## ajv https://www.npmjs.com/package/ajv

json schema vaidator, probably one exists in rust

## query string: https://www.npmjs.com/package/query-string

limited utility: native in node 6+ and browsers.

## md5 https://www.npmjs.com/package/md5

getting this up and running would be fairly easy, but getting it to be _the best wasm md5 impl possible_ would take some work and you'd probably learn a lot.

## prettier

would probably be a super cool and very popular project honestly, but the amount of work is huge

## highlight.js https://www.npmjs.com/package/highlight.js

my work on syntect_wasm compilation should be the decider!
see also:

- https://www.npmjs.com/package/prismjs

## bignumber https://www.npmjs.com/package/bignumber.js

this could be interesting! and _maybe_ even reasonably faster. However, the chaining api makes it a little hard to imagine.

see also:

- https://www.npmjs.com/package/bn.js
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/big.js

## ms https://www.npmjs.com/package/ms

time parsing and conversion

## clean-css https://www.npmjs.com/package/clean-css

css minifier. see also:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/cssnano

## filesize.js https://www.npmjs.com/package/filesize

human readable file sizes

## jszip https://www.npmjs.com/package/jszip

self explanatory
see also: https://www.npmjs.com/package/adm-zip

## jimp https://www.npmjs.com/package/jimp

native image processing, 0.5m weekly downloads and would probably see very large perf improvements. May be stuff in the rust ecosystem that's already trying this.