Learn WebAssembly

Configuring for Node.js

In the interest of keeping the application as simple as possible, we'll avoid a build/bundling tool like Webpack or Rollup.js. This allows us to cut down on the number of required dependencies and ensures that any issues you run into aren't caused by a breaking change in a build dependency.

We'll create a Node.js project because it allows us to run scripts and install a dependency locally for development purposes. We've used the /book-examples folder up to this point, but we'll create a new project folder outside of /book-examples to configure a different default build task in VS Code. Open a terminal, cd into the desired folder, and enter the following commands:

// Create a new directory and cd into it:mkdir cook-the-books ...