WebAssembly Applications: Building Fast Client-Side Logic and Browser Interfaces with Rust

di Thomas Keegan (Autore)

Thomas Keegan, 2026

Push the boundaries of client-side performance by bringing the speed and memory safety of Rust directly to the web browser. Modern web browsers have evolved from simple document viewers into full application platforms. Yet for computation-heavy workloads, dynamic typing and garbage collection pauses in JavaScript often create a frustrating performance ceiling. WebAssembly Applications: Building Fast Client-Side Logic and Browser Interfaces with Rust is a practical, production-focused guide to engineering high-speed browser software that runs at near-native velocity. Rather than treating WebAssembly as an isolated black box, this book teaches you how to architect seamless hybrid systems and full Rust web interfaces. You will learn how the WebAssembly virtual machine operates under the hood, how to cross the JavaScript boundary without copying massive data payloads, and how to ship tiny, optimized binaries that load instantaneously over the network. What You Will Learn: Core WebAssembly Mechanics: Understand the stack machine, linear memory layout, bounds checking, and the browser security sandbox. The Rust Web Toolchain: Configure Cargo workspaces, compilation targets, and release profiles to strip binaries down to their smallest possible footprint. Seamless JavaScript Interoperability: Master wasm-bindgen, js-sys, and web-sys to exchange complex data structures, typed arrays, and asynchronous promises safely. Browser APIs and UI Frameworks: Manipulate the DOM, render 2D and WebGPU graphics, persist data in IndexedDB, and build reactive components using Leptos, Yew, Dioxus, and Sycamore. Concurrency and Multithreading: Offload heavy computation to Web Workers and orchestrate parallel data processing using shared memory, atomics, and Rayon. Production Readiness: Profile execution bottlenecks, enable SIMD hardware acceleration, debug with DWARF symbols, automate headless browser tests, and configure production deployment headers. Who This Book Is For: Designed for JavaScript and TypeScript developers hitting performance limits on the frontend, as well as Rust programmers ready to bring their systems engineering skills to the web platform. Build client-side applications that are fast, predictable, and resilient.

• Autore: Thomas Keegan
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Thomas Keegan
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237227772