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WebAssembly Documentation

Offline Ebook PDF Version of the WebAssembly v1.0 Documentation

A.J. García

Easy to read ebook format of the official WebAssembly documentation. This is version 1.0 as hosted on assemblyscript.org, the idea is to help the community with a portable and easy to read version for offline reference.

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Web Assembly is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications. This PDF ebook is a portable offline reference guide for the community, can be printed or synced with your kindle for a better reading experience. It's based on WebAssembly version v.1.0

This is an excellent reference format for Web Assembly beginners, is not a tutorial just the official documentation for your reference.

This book is not officially endorsed by WebAssembly.

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A.J. García

I started my coding career back in 2003. Lately I've been involved a lot in Javascript for frontend and the backend.

I would love passing along to you some of the experiences and challenges I've faced over the years.

Contents

Table of Contents

This Book

  1. Recommended Resources
  2. Recommended Books

Introduction

  1. In a nutshell

Quick Start

  1. Prerequisites
  2. Setting up a new project
  3. Next steps

Basics

  1. Strictness
  2. Static typing
  3. Sandbox
  4. Quirks

Status

  1. Philosophy
  2. WebAssembly features
  3. Language features
  4. Tooling features

Frequently asked questions

  1. Is WebAssembly going to supersede JavaScript?
  2. Is WebAssembly faster than JavaScript?
  3. Is AssemblyScript faster than JavaScript?
  4. How does AssemblyScript compare/relate to C++/Rust?
  5. Will AssemblyScript support all of TypeScript eventually?
  6. Will interop between AssemblyScript and JavaScript become better?
  7. How can I help?

Compiler

  1. Command line options
  2. API

Types

  1. Type rules
  2. Macro types

Environment

  1. Standard library
  2. Static type checks
  3. Sizes and alignments
  4. Utility
  5. Low-level WebAssembly operations

Exports and imports

  1. Exports
  2. Imports
  3. On values crossing the boundary
  4. Anatomy of a module

Loader

  1. Installation
  2. Usage
  3. API
  4. Convenience vs. efficiency
  5. Advanced usage

Memory

  1. Importing memory
  2. Exporting memory
  3. Accessing memory during instantiation
  4. Memory regions
  5. Internals

Garbage Collection

  1. Runtime interface
  2. Runtime variants
  3. The future: WebAssembly GC

Peculiarities

  1. Annotations
  2. Operator overloads
  3. Range limits
  4. Tree-shaking

Portability

  1. Portable Stdlib
  2. Differences
  3. Limitations

Debugging

  1. Source maps
  2. Stack traces
  3. Disabling assertions
  4. Overriding abort
  5. Manual tracing
  6. Breakpoints
  7. Additional resources

Interoperability

  1. Strings
  2. Class layout
  3. Calling convention
  4. Optional arguments
  5. Garbage collection

Development

  1. Setting up a development environment
  2. Building distribution files
  3. Creating tests

Transforms

  1. Properties
  2. Hooks

Globals

  1. Constants
  2. Functions

Array

  1. Constructor
  2. Static members
  3. Instance members

ArrayBuffer

  1. Constructor
  2. Static members
  3. Instance members

DataView

  1. Constructor
  2. Instance members

Date

  1. Constructor
  2. Static members
  3. Instance members

Error

  1. Variants
  2. Constructor
  3. Instance members

Map

  1. Constructor
  2. Instance members

Math

  1. Variants
  2. Static members
  3. Considerations

Number

  1. Integers
  2. Floats

Set

  1. Constructor
  2. Instance members

String

  1. Static members
  2. Instance members
  3. Encoding API
  4. Considerations

Symbol

  1. Construction
  2. Static members
  3. Instance members

TypedArray

  1. Variants
  2. Constructor
  3. Static members
  4. Instance members

StaticArray

  1. Constructor
  2. Static members
  3. Instance members

process

  1. Static members

console

  1. Static members

crypto

  1. Static members

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