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Sharing Classes from Rust with JavaScript

Sharing Classes from Rust with JavaScript

Learn how to import Rust class/struct in JavaScript.

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wasm-bindgen enables sharing classes from JavaScript with Rust and vice versa using simple annotations. It handles all the boilerplate stuff, such as translating a value from JavaScript to WebAssembly or WebAssembly to JavaScript, as well as complex memory manipulations and error-prone pointer arithmetic. Thus, wasm-bindgen makes everything easier.

Getting started with the project

Let’s see how easy it is to share classes between JavaScript and WebAssembly (from Rust):

  1. Create a new project:

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cargo new --lib class_world
  1. Define the wasm-bindgen dependency for the project. Open the cargo.toml file and add the following content:

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[package]
name = "class_world"
version = "0.1.0"
authors = ["Educative"]
edition = "2018"
[lib]
crate-type = ["cdylib"]
[dependencies]
wasm-bindgen = "0.2.68"
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