This commit deprecates the `--web`, `--no-modules`, and `--nodejs` flags
in favor of one `--target` flag. The motivation for this commit is to be
consistent between `wasm-bindgen` and `wasm-pack` so documentation for
one is applicable for the other (so we don't have to document everywhere
what the translation is between flags). Additionally this should make it
a bit easier to add new targets (if necessary) in the future as it won't
add to the proliferation of flags.
For now the old flags (like `--web`) continue to be accepted, but
they'll be removed during the next set of breaking changes for
`wasm-bindgen`.
* Note that after the game of life tutorial there's also wasm-pack tutorials
* Ensure that the hello world example is clear that webpack isn't
required inline in addition to the text on other pages.
This commit reverts part of the implementation of [RFC 6]. That RFC
specified that the `--browser` flag was going to be repurposed for the
new "natively loadable as ES module output", but unfortunately the
breakage is far broader than initially expected. It turns out that
`wasm-pack` passes `--browser` by default which means that a change to
break `--browser` would break all historical versions of `wasm-pack`
which is a bit much for now.
To solve this the `--browser` flag is going back to what it represents
on the current released version of `wasm-bindgen` (optimize away some
node.js checks in a few places for bundler-style output) and a new
`--web` flag is being introduced as the new deployment strategy.
[RFC 6]: https://github.com/rustwasm/rfcs/pull/6Closes#1318
This commit is an implementation of [RFC 6] which enables crates to
inline local JS snippets into the final output artifact of
`wasm-bindgen`. This is accompanied with a few minor breaking changes
which are intended to be relatively minor in practice:
* The `module` attribute disallows paths starting with `./` and `../`.
It requires paths starting with `/` to actually exist on the filesystem.
* The `--browser` flag no longer emits bundler-compatible code, but
rather emits an ES module that can be natively loaded into a browser.
Otherwise be sure to check out [the RFC][RFC 6] for more details, and
otherwise this should implement at least the MVP version of the RFC!
Notably at this time JS snippets with `--nodejs` or `--no-modules` are
not supported and will unconditionally generate an error.
[RFC 6]: https://github.com/rustwasm/rfcs/pull/6Closes#1311
This commit rejiggers some documentation of `wasm-bindgen` in a few
significant ways:
* The main landing page now has text and links to the Game of Life
tutorial and `wasm-pack`.
* The "whirlwind tour" was deleted as it wasn't really serving any
purpose that the Game of Life plus the later references weren't already
serving.
* The "no modules" example was renamed to "without a bundler"
* A dedicated section on "Deployment" was added which replaces the
previous "No ES Modules" page. This is hopefully more descriptive and
also prominently mentions the various options for deployment.
This commit migrates all our examples to using `wasm-pack build` to
compile their code and run `wasm-bindgen`. This should make it a bit
easier to understand the examples as there's less to follow during the
build step.
Webpack projects are all using `@wasm-tool/wasm-pack-plugin` as well so
the build step is simple `npm run serve`. Other examples which retain
`build.sh` are just using `wasm-pack build` now
... and add a parallel raytracing demo!
This commit adds enough support to `wasm-bindgen` to produce a workable
wasm binary *today* with the experimental WebAssembly threads support
implemented in Firefox Nightly. I've tried to comment what's going on in
the commits and such, but at a high level the changes made here are:
* A new transformation, living in a new `wasm-bindgen-threads-xform`
crate, prepares a wasm module for parallel execution. This performs a
number of mundane tasks which I hope to detail in a blog post later on.
* The `--no-modules` output is enhanced with more support for when
shared memory is enabled, allowing passing in the module/memory to
initialize the wasm instance on multiple threads (sharing both module
and memory).
* The `wasm-bindgen` crate now offers the ability, in `--no-modules`
mode, to get a handle on the `WebAssembly.Module` instance.
* The example itself requires Xargo to recompile the standard library
with atomics and an experimental feature enabled. Afterwards it
experimentally also enables threading support in wasm-bindgen.
I've also added hopefully enough CI support to compile this example in a
builder so we can upload it and poke around live online. I hope to
detail more about the technical details here in a blog post soon as
well!
Previously the `link_mem_intrinsics` hack actually had a runtime
overhead by storing a value into a global location, but it turns out we
can actually use a non-inlined function call as part of the *descriptor*
which requires this to be in the final binary, but we'll end up snip'ing
the value at the end.
All in all this should mean that it's not a zero-overhead solution for
linking these intrinsics! The `#[wasm_bindgen]` attribute already has
other problems if the descriptors don't show up, so that's the least of
our issues!
Rejigger Travis slightly to take advantage of build stages to build the
`gh-pages` branch amongst a set of builders, and then when they're all
done we synchronize and deploy the site. For now use S3 as a backing
store for data between jobs.
This commit is a large-ish scale reorganization of our examples. The
main goal here is to have a dedicated section of the guide for example,
and all examples will be listed there. Each example's `README` is now
just boilerplate pointing at the guide along with a blurb about how to
run it.
Some examples like `math` and `smorgasboard` have been deleted as they
didn't really serve much purpose, and others like `closures` have been
rewritten with `web-sys` instead of hand-bound bindings.
Overall it's hoped that this puts us in a good and consistent state for
our examples, with all of them being described in the guide, excerpts
are in the guide, and they're all relatively idiomatically using
`web-sys`.
