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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

Sharing classes from Rust with JavaScript

wasm-bindgen enables sharing classes from JavaScript with Rust and vice versa using simple annotations. It handles all the boilerplate stuff, such as translating a value from JavaScript to WebAssembly or WebAssembly to JavaScript, complex memory manipulations, and error-prone pointer arithmetic. Thus, wasm-bindgen makes everything easier.

Let's see how easy it is to share classes between JavaScript and WebAssembly (from Rust):

  1. Create a new project:
    $ cargo new --lib class_world
    Created library `class_world` package
  2. Define the wasm-bindgen dependency for the project. Open the cargo.toml file and add the following content:
    [package]
    name = "class_world"
    version = "0.1.0"
    authors = ["Sendil Kumar"]
    edition = "2018"
    [lib]
    crate-type = ["cdylib"]
    [dependencies]
    wasm-bindgen = "0.2.68"
  3. Open the src/lib.rs file and replace the content with the following:
    use wasm_bindgen...
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