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WebAssembly in Action
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WebAssembly in Action

by Gerard Gallant
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
15h 6m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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Chapter 11. WebAssembly text format

This chapter covers

  • Creating a WebAssembly text format version of a module
  • Compiling the text format code into a binary module using the WebAssembly Binary Toolkit’s online tool
  • Linking the Binary Toolkit’s generated module to an Emscripten-generated module
  • Building the HTML and JavaScript for the UI aspect of a game

WebAssembly is designed with a binary file format so that the WebAssembly files are as small as possible, allowing for fast transmissions and downloads; this doesn’t mean it’s a way for developers to hide their code. In fact, quite the opposite is true. WebAssembly is designed with the web’s openness in mind. As a result, a text format equivalent of the binary format also exists.

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