The Facades

Inertia Rust has several traits that describe its behavior. The provider’s job is to implement them to the framework structs, connecting Inertia Rust to it.

The main trait describes the operations inner_render, inner_render_with_props and inner_location, which must be implemented and contains the actual methods (the implementations of the operations). For using these functions, you’d have to extract the Inertia instance from the request context and, again, pass a reference to the whole http request to it.

It’s definetely far from being fancy. That’s why we also provide — and require provides to implement — the InertiaFacade trait. It contains the render, render_with_props and location operations. The provider uses the given request reference to extract the Inertia instance itself and call the respective method.

It’s way more elegant to do this:

use inertia_rust::{Inertia, InertiaFacade};
use actix_web::{get, Responder, HttpRequest};

#[get("/")]
async fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> impl Responder {
    Inertia::render(&req, "Index".into()).await
}

Than this:

use inertia_rust::Inertia;
use actix_web::{get, Responder, HttpRequest, web::Data};

#[get("/")]
async fn index(req: HttpRequest, inertia: Data<Inertia>) -> impl Responder {
    inertia.inner_render(&req, "https://inertiajs.com").await
}