Online demo: https://pyfisch.org/stuff/colorful-map/

First clone the repository. Emscripten needs to be installed.

Building and running colerful-map:

$ cargo build --target asmjs-unknown-emscripten --release
$ cp target/asmjs-unknown-emscripten/release/colorful-map.js web/
$ cd web
$ python3 -m http.server

Go to http://localhost:8000 in your favourite browser and try the map!

• Mapzen Vector Tiles Service is the data source used for this crate.
• Leaflet.js provides the UI for the vector tiles. It supports moving, zooming, etc.
• The Rust FFI omnibus helped me to write the functions callled from JavaScript. (Mainly articles slice arguments and string return values)
• Emscripten used to compile Rust for the browser.
• Compiling Rust to your Browser Introduction into Rust and Emscripten from Rust Belt Rust 2016 by badboy