Let's make an htop-like in your browser (with Rust)

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Contents

00:00 Adding tokio & axum
03:45 Pushing it to GitHub
04:19 Measuring CPU usage with sysinfo
11:05 Adding a JSON endpoint
14:03 Serving HTML
17:20 A dynamic page with Vanilla JS
21:50 Using preact and htm without a bundler
26:43 From text to styled div soup
31:41 Bridging sync & async Rust
36:02 Suddenly lock contention
38:33 Who doesn't love websockets
42:56 websocat and the load-bearing semi-colon
45:17 Consuming Websockets from JS
47:06 Using tokio's broadcast channel
50:39 Thanks for watching