Rustaceans at the border

Rustaceans at the border

Bear in mind that crates.io, the package index, and crates.io, the web-based browser frontend for it, are separate systems.

Think of it like GitHub or GitLab or BitBucket or Gitea. When using git with one of those sites or cargo with crates.io, you only need to enable JavaScript if you want to publish to the site and, once you've set things up and retrieved your API key(s), you don't need to log in.

Heck, comparing cargo to git is an understatement. With subcommands like search, publish, and owner, it's more like hub. (A wrapper for git which adds subcommands like git issue create for GitHub-proprietary APIs so you probably never need to use the web UI once you've set up your credentials.)

Beyond that, they do have plans to enable server-side rendering for the browser frontend... it's just that the team who handle the frontend is a bit understaffed so it's taking a while to rework it.