# Leptos

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/leptos/

7 people recommended Leptos in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 12 months, in 8 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Rust web framework for full-stack apps with declarative reactive UI; critics point to heavy build output and weak IDE autocomplete.

Summary written by Claude from 19 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 15 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Full-stack Rust web framework (2 comments in the sample): "it's a great framework for those who want to build full-stack apps in Rust" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997842)) "For those looking for an actual Rust web framework, check out Leptos" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997759))
- HTML templating inside .rs files (2 comments in the sample): "Yew and Leptos implement Vue-like and React-like patterns, including support for JSX and HTML templating natively inside standard .rs files" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142662)) "You can do actual html. This is Leptos, a Solidjs like rust library" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051961))
- Fast enough for most applications (2 comments in the sample): "the various Rust react-like libraries (Yew, Dioxus, Leptos) are all reasonably fast for many/most applications" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546456)) "Dioxus, Yew and Leptos are already showing a lot of this to be good enough." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428451))
- Declarative, reactive UI syntax (1 comment in the sample): "IMO leptos (leptos.dev) has far more fine-grained capabilities" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601038))

## Other web frameworks people recommend

- [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails/): 227 recommend, 75 mixed, 129 criticize
- [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django/): 200 recommend, 48 mixed, 82 criticize
- [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix/): 66 recommend, 14 mixed, 10 criticize
- [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel/): 57 recommend, 9 mixed, 22 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Leptos", https://hackerapproved.com/p/leptos/ (7 recommend, 1 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.