rustwasm - Conway's Game of Life (w/SvelteKit)

Implementing the rustwasm tutorial of Conway's Game of Life using SvelteKit as the UI.

Development

• Using pnpm as package manager
• Node v20

Running

Install web dependencies:

pnpm install

Compile the wasm package via:

pnpm wasm

Run the development server:

pnpm dev

Visit: http://localhost:5173

Takeaways/Learnings/Links

1. wasm-bindgen - allows JS/wasm to communicate with strings, JS objects, classes, etc, as opposed to purely integers and floats.
   1. Ex. https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/print.html#srclibrs-1
2. wasm-pack vite-plugin: https://github.com/nshen/vite-plugin-wasm-pack
3. Getting { memory } module to load since now using the no bundler strategy. See link below (kudos!):
   1. https://lionturkey.github.io/posts/rustwasm/rustwasm.html
   2. "In order to access memory used by Wasm without npm, we need to save the output of the init() function"

Future TODOs:

1. Implement Hashlife