WebAssembly Training Overview
This Introduction to WebAssembly training gives attendees a comprehensive overview of the present and future of WebAssembly and prepares them to embrace the promise of standards-based, safe, fast, and portable code. Students learn how WebAssembly solves many of the problems facing client-side web development, while still allowing freedom of technology choice.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Understand the purpose and consequences of WebAssembly's design
- Understand how it differs from other attempts to create safe, fast and portable code
- Leverage the elements of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) WebAssembly platform
- Navigate the structure and elements of WebAssembly modules
- Use various tools in the WebAssembly ecosystem
- Understand the Wast text syntax
- Convert between WASM and WAST
- Leverage the JavaScript API
- Expose and call functions from WebAssembly
- Share memory between modules
- Provide dynamic linking between modules
- Convert legacy code to WebAssembly
- Work with C/C++
- Work with Rust
- Work with AssemblyScript
- Work inside and outside the browser
- Understand how WASI provides portability and security for applications
- Understand how the WebAssembly ecosystem is evolving
Prerequisites
Familiarity with modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development is presumed.
Outline
Expand All | Collapse All
Introduction
History of safe, fast, portable initiatives
NaCL/PNaCL
Asm.js
Path to WebAssembly Standards
Minimum Viable Product
- An overview of the version supported by all major browsers and Node
WAST and WASM
- WebAssembly formats
- Converting between the formats
WebAssembly Memory
- Reading and Writing to Shared Memory
- Initializing and Growing Memory
WebAssembly Tables
- Invoking methods dynamically
Working with C/C++
Porting Legacy Code
Working with Rust
WebAssembly in the Server
- Working with Node and Deno
Working with AssemblyScript
WebAssembly System Interface (WASI)
- Introduction
- Portability
- Security
- WAPM
WebAssembly Green Field Projects
Conclusion
Training Materials
All WebAssembly training students receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
Software for each delivery is determined based on the client’s preferred environment and choice of either Rust or C/C++ as the development language for class.
