Arrow in the browser using JavaScript

One of the most common ways to currently deploy an application to consumers is by developing a web application. You can provide an application intended for mobile phones, tablets, or laptop/desktop browsers all in one location. When it comes to building modern interactive applications on the web, you can be sure that JavaScript and/or TypeScript are going to be involved somewhere. Now that we’ve covered some examples of services and systems utilizing Arrow, we’ll cover a couple of projects that are leveraging Arrow front and center, right in the browser.

Gaining a little perspective

Perspective is a visualization library originally developed at J.P. Morgan and then open-sourced under the Apache Open Source License 2.0 through the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS). Perspective is written in C++ and compiled for both WebAssembly and Python, with JavaScript components provided to wrap around the WebAssembly module. Two main...