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Refactoring to Rust
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Refactoring to Rust

by Lily Mara, Joel Holmes
July 2025
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 6m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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9 WebAssembly for refactoring JavaScript

This chapter covers

  • Writing a Rust library to be used in JavaScript
  • Integrating WebAssembly into an existing JavaScript project and component
  • Writing a web component entirely in Rust and importing it into an existing project

Finding a single language with which to develop all parts of an application has been a goal for many who create programming languages. “Write once, run anywhere” was a tagline for Java because, at the time, it seemed like as long as a system could run Java’s virtual machine, your application would run there, too. Obviously, this had its limitations, but in essence, it was what made Java such a popular platform, even to this day. This idea of cross-platform software isn’t new; ...

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