Currently closure shims are communicated to JS at runtime, although at runtime the same constant value is always passed to JS! More pressing, however, work in #1002 requires knowledge of closure descriptor indices at `wasm-bindgen` time which is not currently known. Since the closure descriptor shims and such are already constant values, this commit moves the descriptor function indices into the *descriptor* for a closure/function pointer. This way we can learn about these values at `wasm-bindgen` time instead of only knowing them at runtime. This should have no semantic change on users of `wasm-bindgen`, although some closure invocations may be slightly speedier because there's less arguments being transferred over the boundary. Overall though this will help #1002 as the closure shims that the Rust compiler generates may not be the exact ones we hand out to JS, but rather wrappers around them which do `anyref` business things.
wasm-bindgen
Facilitating high-level interactions between wasm modules and JavaScript.
Import JavaScript things into Rust and export Rust things to JavaScript.
extern crate wasm_bindgen;
use wasm_bindgen::prelude::*;
// Import the `window.alert` function from the Web.
#[wasm_bindgen]
extern "C" {
fn alert(s: &str);
}
// Export a `greet` function from Rust to JavaScript, that alerts a
// hello message.
#[wasm_bindgen]
pub fn greet(name: &str) {
alert(&format!("Hello, {}!", name));
}
Use exported Rust things from JavaScript with ECMAScript modules!
import { greet } from "./hello_world";
greet("World!");
Features
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Lightweight. Only pay for what you use.
wasm-bindgen
only generates bindings and glue for the JavaScript imports you actually use and Rust functionality that you export. For example, importing and using thedocument.querySelector
method doesn't causeNode.prototype.appendChild
orwindow.alert
to be included in the bindings as well. -
ECMAScript modules. Just import WebAssembly modules the same way you would import JavaScript modules. Future compatible with WebAssembly modules and ECMAScript modules integration.
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Designed with the "host bindings" proposal in mind. Eventually, there won't be any JavaScript shims between Rust-generated wasm functions and native DOM methods. Because the wasm functions are statically type checked, some of those native methods' dynamic type checks should become unnecessary, promising to unlock even-faster-than-JavaScript DOM access.
Guide
📚 Read the wasm-bindgen
guide here! 📚
API Docs
License
This project is licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Contribution
See the "Contributing" section of the guide for information on
hacking on wasm-bindgen
!
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.