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Practical WebAssembly

You're reading from   Practical WebAssembly Explore the fundamentals of WebAssembly programming using Rust

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828004
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to WebAssembly
2. Chapter 1: Understanding LLVM FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Emscripten 4. Chapter 3: Exploring WebAssembly Modules 5. Section 2: WebAssembly Tools
6. Chapter 4: Understanding WebAssembly Binary Toolkit 7. Chapter 5: Understanding Sections in WebAssembly Modules 8. Chapter 6: Installing and Using Binaryen 9. Section 3: Rust and WebAssembly
10. Chapter 7: Integrating Rust with WebAssembly 11. Chapter 8: Bundling WebAssembly Using wasm-pack 12. Chapter 9: Crossing the Boundary between Rust and WebAssembly 13. Chapter 10: Optimizing Rust and WebAssembly 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Bundling WebAssembly modules with Parcel

Parcel is a blazing-fast, zero-configuration web application bundler. Parcel is the new kid in the web application bundler space. It is built from scratch to be fast and needs zero configuration. The main pain point of webpack is its configuration. Although it looks simpler to start with, it gradually becomes more complex and unmanageable when the application grows. But the configuration will give a complete overview of what is happening and how it is bundling. With zero configuration, Parcel will infer the bundle from the initial point (that is, index.html) and then build the entire graph from there.

While webpack has a plugin-based architecture, Parcel has a worker-based architecture. This enables Parcel to be faster than webpack as it uses multicore compilation and cache.

Parcel also has inbuilt configuration to support JavaScript, CSS, and HTML files. Just like webpack, it also has various plugins that we can use to configure the bundler...

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