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Practical WebAssembly

By : Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
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Practical WebAssembly

By: Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen

Overview of this book

Rust is an open source language tuned toward safety, concurrency, and performance. WebAssembly brings all the capabilities of the native world into the JavaScript world. Together, Rust and WebAssembly provide a way to create robust and performant web applications. They help make your web applications blazingly fast and have small binaries. Developers working with JavaScript will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to developing faster and maintainable code. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, examples, and self-assessment questions, you’ll begin by exploring WebAssembly, using the various tools provided by the ecosystem, and understanding how to use WebAssembly and JavaScript together to build a high-performing application. You’ll then learn binary code to work with a variety of tools that help you to convert native code into WebAssembly. The book will introduce you to the world of Rust and the ecosystem that makes it easy to build/ship WebAssembly-based applications. By the end of this WebAssembly Rust book, you’ll be able to create and ship your own WebAssembly applications using Rust and JavaScript, understand how to debug, and use the right tools to optimize and deliver high-performing applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to WebAssembly
5
Section 2: WebAssembly Tools
9
Section 3: Rust and WebAssembly

Installing and using Binaryen

In order to install Binaryen, first clone the repository from GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen

After the repository is cloned, go into the folder:

$ cd binaryen

Linux/macOS

Generate the project build system by running the cmake command with the path to the binaryen folder:

$ cmake .

Next, build the project using the make command:

$ make .

This generates all the binaries in the bin folder.

Windows

For Windows, once the repository is cloned, we will create a build directory and go inside it:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build

By default, Windows does not have the cmake command available. Install the Visual C++ tools to make the cmake command available in the system. To install the Visual C++ tools, check out the following link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-projects-in-visual-studio?view=msvc-160&viewFallbackFrom=vs-2019. Then, run the following command inside the build folder...