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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

Packing and publishing using wasm-pack

The most amazing (and, of course, the most important) thing for a library developer to do is to pack and publish artifacts. That is why we spend our days and nights carefully crafting the application, publishing it to the world, receiving feedback (either negative or positive), and then enhancing the application based on that.

The critical point for any project is its first release, which defines the fate of the project. Even though it is simply an MVP, it will give the world a glimpse of what we are working on and gives us a glimpse of what we have to work on in the future.

wasm-pack helps us to build, pack, and publish Rust- and WebAssembly-based projects into the npm registry. We have already seen how wasm-pack makes it simpler to build Rust into the WebAssembly binary along with the binding JavaScript file using wasm-bindgen underneath. Let's further explore what we can do with its pack and publish flags.

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