dioxus compiles to js or to wasm?

To wasm 🙌 You can usually get very light web app bundles, sometimes weighing less than 50kb

can you interact with the dom from wasm directly? or how it works? I should probably read the docs

From the standpoint of the developer using Dioxus, you don't ever need to write any Javascript. You only need to write Rust code with rsx macros for the view layouts, similar to React or Swift UI. However, if your question is about the internals of the Dioxus framework, and whether it directly interacts with the DOM without any Javascript, then I am not really sure. I imagine they use either no javascript at all, or a thin layer of javascript to serve as a bridge between WASM code and the browser DOM API.

did you look into leptos or sycamore?

I tried leptos for a bit a few months ago, but I ran into some internal bug on the framework on an example code provided by them, which caused me to get stuck pretty early on. (I haven't tried it since, it is possible that they have improved since then). I haven't looked into sycamore, it looks interesting. I don't know if they have cross-platform support beyond web applications (which is something that interests me in Dioxus). Between the two I have tried (Leptos and Dioxus), Dioxus felt more stable/polished. Have you tried those? What are your thoughts on the different Rust UI frameworks?