Getting Started with WebAssembly - WASM with Rust Lang

This beginner course demonstrates how to create, build, inspect, optimize, and execute WebAssembly modules using Rust. It also covers running Rust-generated WebAssembly in Node.js, converting WASM to WAT, and comparing compiled output with hand-coded WebAssembly.

Syllabus

- intro
- installing wasm-pack
- creating a rust library for your wasm module with cargo
- exploring the scaffolded library in vscode
- modifying the cargo.toml
- writing some rust webassembky code in vscode
- building rustlang wasm with apple m1 silicon
- exploring the generated wasm
- reverse engineering wasm to wat
- optimizing the generated release wasm
- extending your webassembly in rust
- building your webassembly for node.js
- executing your rust generated wasm in nodejs
- handcoding some webassembly
- comparing rust generated and handcoded webassembly
- conclusion