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web-sys[1] generates the binding code using the same IDL files that browsers use to generate their JS bindings to the C++ doing the actual work.

[1] https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/tree/main/crates/we...

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You still need to run JavaScript functions to manipulate the DOM. "without ever touching JS/TS" seems misleading as that implies "no JavaScript code is executed".

When I read "touched" I don't think "executed". I think "edited". There is C code executed when I run JavaScript, but that doesn't mean that I had to touch it. Similarly, all the JS run when accessing the DOM from Rust is generated by the library. The user of the library doesn't have to touch it.

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