DEMO
Status
Just the beginning, and learning Rust...but it works!
About
awsm is mid-level crate for wasm, especially gamedev / immersive experience things
Overall, the approach with this library is similar in spirit to gloo - that is to say, it aims to bridge the gap between the auto-generated WebIDL-powered bindings web-sys provides, and the type of code we'd typically consider a real starting point in web apps.
It's also just my personal stomping grounds to figure stuff out, and is therefore more free to err on the side of "is this good enough for now" vs. "is this the right api, is it modular enough, etc."
There's a few major areas under development, but lots of stuff is done :) Check it out!
Developing
There are two steps:
- run
watch-dev.batin the main folder.
Yeah, I'm on windows - sorry! This will watch for changes to rust sources and rebuild / bindgen to create the wasm on change
Usually this is the window to look at for iterative feedback
This is required to cause live-reloading in webpack (npm start isn't enough)
- cd examples && npm start
This will start up the webpack dev server (and it will restart when rust recompiles successfully)
The reason these are kept separate is that I found the best way is to keep them in completely separate windows. The webpack dev server generates its own noise and does weird coloring stuff.
Also, there could theoretically be different settings for "watch-dev" i.e. to only run cargo check etc. but I haven't really needed that yet
Anyway, made sense to keep the steps separate :)
- Edit examples/Cargo.toml to switch between webgl1 and webgl2
It's changing one character, but you can only test one at a time (since it's a compile-time flag)
Other apps aren't limited by this - it's just for the examples (not library)
Release
For the app example - npm run bundle in the examples folder should cover it
But make sure wasm-opt is installed by downloading the latest release from binaryen and putting it in the path somewhere
For the library - it's just normal cargo package/publish in the lib/ folder
Live Coding
As a way to self-motivate getting over the learning curve (this is my first Rust project), I thought it might help to livestream the coding+learning sessions, and also archive them in a playlist for a look-back.
On twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dakomz