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
I have removed the "--------------------" separators as they cause a section number to be skipped and hence incorrect section numbering in the left panel TOC.
Take a look at https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/web-sys/index.html left panel, towards the bottom, and you will see that it's jumps from section 3, to 5, to 7 to 9 - which I am assuming is NOT what you wanted.
This commit switches strategies for storing `JsValue` from a heap/stack
to just one heap. This mirrors the new strategy for `JsValue` storage
in #1002 and should make multiplexing those strategies at
`wasm-bindgen`-time much easier.
Instead of having one array which acts as a stack for borrowed values
and one array for a heap of borrowed values, only one JS array is used
for storage of JS values now. This makes `getObject` far simpler by
simply being an array access, but it means that cloning an object now
reserves a new slot instead of reference counting it. If the old
reference counting behavior is needed it's thought that `Rc<JsValue>`
can be used in Rust.
The new "heap" has an initial stack pointer which grows downwards, and a
heap which grows upwards. The heap is a singly-linked-list which is
allocated/deallocated from. The stack grows downwards to zero and
presumably starts generating errors once it underflows. An initial stack
size of 32 is chosen as that should encompass all use cases today, but
we can eventually probably add configuration for this!
Note that the heap is initialized to all `null` for the stack and then
the initial JS values (`undefined`, `null`, `true`, `false`) are pushed
onto the heap in reserved locations.
This commit adds a new attribute to `#[wasm_bindgen]`: `start`. The
`start` attribute can be used to indicate that a function should be
executed when the module is loaded, configuring the `start` function of
the wasm executable. While this doesn't necessarily literally configure
the `start` section, it does its best!
Only one crate in a crate graph may indicate `#[wasm_bindgen(start)]`,
so it's not recommended to be used in libraries but only end-user
applications. Currently this still must be used with the `crate-type =
["cdylib"]` annotation in `Cargo.toml`.
The implementation here is somewhat tricky because of the circular
dependency between our generated JS and the wasm file that we emit. This
circular dependency makes running initialization routines (like the
`start` shim) particularly fraught with complications because one may
need to run before the other but bundlers may not necessarily respect
it. Workarounds have been implemented for various emission strategies,
for example calling the start function directly after exports are wired
up with `--no-modules` and otherwise working around what appears to be
a Webpack bug with initializers running in a different order than we'd
like. In any case, this in theory doesn't show up to the end user!
Closes#74
Correction to Pull Request #1035
limira is correct, that particular paragraph is referencing another crate. Considering the wasm-bindgen tutorial links here for the web-sys crate I added another link to the correct cargo link.
Sorry for the mistake.
This commit switches all imports of JS methods to `structural` by
default. Proposed in [RFC 5] this should increase the performance of
bindings today while also providing future-proofing for possible
confusion with the recent addition of the `Deref` trait for all imported
types by default as well.
A new attribute, `host_binding`, is introduced in this PR as well to
recover the old behavior of binding directly to an imported function
which will one day be the precise function on the prototype. Eventually
`web-sys` will switcsh over entirely to being driven via `host_binding`
methods, but for now it's been measured to be not quite as fast so we're
not making that switch yet.
Note that `host_binding` differs from the proposed name of `final` due
to the controversy, and its hoped that `host_binding` is a good
middle-ground!
[RFC 5]: https://rustwasm.github.io/rfcs/005-structural-and-deref.html
This commit implements the first half of [RFC #5] where the `Deref`
trait is implemented for all imported types. The target of `Deref` is
either the first entry of the list of `extends` attribute or `JsValue`.
All examples using `.as_ref()` with various `web-sys` types have been
updated to the more ergonomic deref casts now. Additionally the
`web-sys` generation of the `extends` array has been fixed slightly to
explicitly list implementatoins in the hierarchy order to ensure the
correct target for `Deref` is chosen.
[RFC #5]: https://github.com/rustwasm/rfcs/blob/master/text/005-structural-and-deref.md
... 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!
I've noticed this in a few cases where it's sometimes easy to have a
`WebAssembly.Module` on-hand for the `--no-modules` mode where you don't
want to necessarily `fetch`. This commit changes the exported
initialization function in `--no-modules` mode to support both!
This commit does a few things, including:
* Fixing the generated JS of `wasm-bindgen` to allow polyfills to work.
(a minor tweak of the generated JS)
* All examples are updated to include a Webpack-specific polyfill for
these two types to get examples working in Edge.
* A new page has been added to the guide about supported browsers. This
mentions known caveats like IE 11 requiring `wasm2js` as well as
documenting some `TextEncoder` and `TextDecoder` workarounds for Edge.
Closes#895
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!
