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Rust Web Programming - Third Edition
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Rust Web Programming - Third Edition

by Maxwell Flitton
January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
674 pages
15h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Injecting Rust in the Frontend with WebAssembly

You have probably heard about WebAssembly (WASM). At the time of writing this book, the WASM ecosystem is still in the early rapid development phases, where APIs get outdated quickly, and groups trying out a new approach cease to exist but have remnants of their approach throughout the internet. This can lead to frustration as you burn hours trying to figure out what API does what. However, the promise of compile once and run anywhere, including the browser, is a clear advantage, so it makes sense to understand and get comfortable with WASM.

In this chapter, we are going to keep the interactions with APIs to a minimum and focus on concepts around serving WASM modules to the frontend to be loaded ...

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ISBN: 9781835887769