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WASM-Frontmatter:
A Javascript package written in Rust leveraging WASM
Josh Finnie
What is WASM-Frontmatter?
- It's a javascript package to "replace" gray-matter
- It's API is completely Web Assembly
- It's currently about twice as fast as gray-matter
- It's almost at API parity (still working on callbacks)
[1] Gray Matter: https://www.npmjs.com/package/gray-matter
[2] WASM Frontmatter: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wasm-frontmatter
What is WASM?
- WebAssembly (WASM) is an open web standard that defines a portable binary-code format for executable programs in the web giving near-native code execution speed in the web browser. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly
Tools WASM-Frontmatter Uses
Below are the two tools I use to build WASM-Frontmatter:
- Rust, of course
- WASM-Pack
Rust
- All logic for WASM-Frontmatter is written using Rust.
- It uses the wasm-bindgen[1] crate heavily to build connections between the Rust code and Javascript.
[1] https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/wasm-bindgen/
WASM-Pack
- A tool seeks to be a one-stop shop for building and working with rust- generated WebAssembly that you would like to interop with JavaScript, in the browser or with Node.js [1]
- This command line tool is tightly coupled to the wasm-bindgen package we use to code our application in rust
- It also very nicely helps build and publish your application to NPM
[1] https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/wasm-pack/
WASM-Pack (Con't)
- Have Rust installed.
- Install WASM-pack through this script:
- Once installed, run the following commands to get your package up and running:
$ wasm-pack new hello-world
$ cd hello-world
$ wasm-pack build
$ wasm-pack publish$ curl https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-pack/installer/init.sh -sSf | shLive Code!
Thank you!
Josh Finnie
@joshfinnie (almost everywhere)
Building WASM-Frontend
By Josh Finnie
