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The Art of WebAssembly

Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications

Rick Battagline

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No Starch Press,US
15 August 2021
A a thorough, practice-based introduction to WebAssembly. Learn how to create high-performing, lightning-fast websites and applications.

WebAssembly is the fast, compact, portable technology that optimizes the performance of resource-intensive web applications and programs. The Art of WebAssembly is designed to give web developers a solid understanding of how it works, when to use it (and when not to), and how to develop and deploy WebAssembly apps.

First you'll learn how to optimize and compile low-level code, debug and evaluate WebAssembly, and represent WebAssembly in the human-readable WebAssembly Text (WAT) format. Once you have the basics down, you'll build a browser-based collision detection program, work with browser rendering technologies to create graphics and animations, and see how WebAssembly interacts with other web languages.

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Embed WebAssembly applications in web browsers and Node.js

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Use browser debuggers to evaluate your WebAssembly code

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Format variables, loops, functions, strings, data structures, and conditional logic in WAT

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Manipulate memory

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Build a program that generates graphical objects and detects when they collide

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Evaluate the output of a WebAssembly compiler

The Art of WebAssembly will help you make sense of this powerful technology to boost the performance of your web applications.
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Imprint:   No Starch Press,US
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 178mm, 
Weight:   368g
ISBN:   9781718501447
ISBN 10:   1718501447
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction to WebAssembly Chapter 2: WAT Basics Chapter 3: Functions and Tables Chapter 4: Low Level Bit Manipulation Chapter 5: String Manipulation Chapter 6: Linear Memory Chapter 7: Web Applications Chapter 8: Working with the Canvas Chapter 9: Optimizing Performance Chapter 10: Debugging WebAssembly Chapter 11: AssemblyScript

Rick Battagline is a game developer and author of Hands-On Game Development with WebAssembly (Packt Publishing, 2019). In 2006 he founded BattleLine Games LLC, an independent game studio focused on web games. Since then, he has written hundreds of games developed in various web technologies including WebAssembly, HTML5, WebGL, JavaScript, TypeScript, ActionScript, and PHP. He's a member of the WebAssembly Community Group, and the AssemblyScript Community Group.

Reviews for The Art of WebAssembly: Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications

This book is a clear and step-by-step approach to WebAssembly. Rick Battagline is introducing all concepts from the very beginning, with illustrations and examples, so that you can learn progressively--even without any prior knowledge in low level programming. It's a pleasure to read and learn as you go through the chapters. It will be useful for either trying WebAssembly in your app or to get a good understanding before using languages compiling to WebAssembly. --Florian Rival, The Changelog, creator of the app GDevelop and the game Lil BUB


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