CHANGELOG.md

To do list

• MDN's Rust-WASM intro.
• A slightly more involved example with the Rust-wasm book 📖
• Move to Trunk
• Remaining exercises time-optimization and size-optimization
• Check out js_ffi or js-wasm as the former seems deprecated
• Check out the js! macro
• Wrap it into a Web Component
• wasm-bindgen
• wasm-pack
• In general the rust-wasm docs and blog!
• Run JS in WASI post on wasm.builders
• Try out WALT

Further and off-topic

👾 Graphics

• https://nercury.github.io/rust/opengl/tutorial/2018/02/08/opengl-in-rust-from-scratch-00-setup.html
• https://crates.io/crates/wgpu

💻 Programming

• https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/docs/WASI-tutorial.md#from-rust
• https://deno.com/blog/roll-your-own-javascript-runtime

🗓 change log

Sun 21 Aug 2022

Follow MDN tutorial, Rust-WASM.

• Created a library crate
• Use wasm_bindgen to generate bindings:
  • Call JS's alert from Rust
  • Call a Rust function greet from JS
• Compiled to WASM
• Tests on local server
• Create a NPM symlink package
• Import NPM symlink into a sample project
• Run the sample project

This was similar to https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/wasm-bindgen/examples/hello-world.html although that seems to be a bit out of date, check the comment on webpack imports

Next:

• Configure TypeScript in the sample project, and check imports and definitions.

Mon 22 Aug 2022

Done today:

• Updated to webpack 5
• Transpiled using SWC 🦀
• Added TypeScript
• Used top level await and wasm async experimental features
• A very rude performance test

Next:

• Try something more ambitious, follow up tutorial from rust-wasm book

Sat 1 Oct 2022

Done today:

• Adapted example from rust-wasm book to use TypeScript and SWC on Webpack.
• Followed until https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/game-of-life/implementing.html#rendering-to-canvas-directly-from-memory

Next:

• Continue book example

Sun 2 Oct 2022

• Published to NPM https://www.npmjs.com/package/glife-wasm
• Deployed to Vercel https://samuelsh-glife-wasm.vercel.app/
• Improved NPM scripts for development and build
• Bug hunting re. wasm-pack build rustwasm/wasm-pack#990
• Exercises section 4.4 rust-wasm book

Sun 9 Oct 2022

• Added interactivity
• Styled with PicoCSS

Next:

• Try to write directly into memory.

Tue 11 Oct 2022

• Cells are modified directly in memory on mouse over.
• Removed pause interaction
• Headless tests w/ wasm_bindgen_test

Next:

• Continue rust-wasm book

Wed 12 Oct 2022

• Bump rand dep, fixed feature errors
• Fixed extern crate error on tests/
• Profiling and optimizations

Sun 5 Nov 2022

• Improved canvas drawing performance drastically, using bitmap image
• Fixed user interactions
• New timer class
• Tiding up README and docs

Sat 11 Nov 2022

• Encapsulated in a Web Component
• Responsive to width and height attributes
• Styles, favicon, and font
• Cleanup dependencies and webpack settings

Sun 16 Apr 2023

• Removed wasm-pack and replaced with manual build steps using wasm-bindgen
• Separate site from Rust module
• Added custom elements manifest and VScode custom data format
• House keepin: updates, package.json, READMEs, etc.