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WASI Preview2 implementations for Node.js & browsers.
Node.js support is fully tested and conformant against the Wasmtime test suite.
Browser support is considered experimental, and not currently suitable for production applications.
An default instantiation object can be used via the WASIShim class in @bytecodealliance/preview2-shim/instantiation:
import { WASIShim } from '@bytecodealliance/preview2-shim/instantiation';
import type {
VersionedWASIImportObject,
WASIImportObject,
} from '@bytecodealliance/preview2-shim/instantiation';
const shim = new WASIShim();
const unversioned: WASIImportObject = shim.getImportObject();
// console.log('unversioned', unversioned);
unversioned satisfies WASIImportObject;
unversioned satisfies VersionedWASIImportObject<''>;
const versioned: VersionedWASIImportObject<'0.2.3'> = shim.getImportObject({
asVersion: '0.2.3',
});
//console.log('versioned', versioned);
versioned satisfies VersionedWASIImportObject<'0.2.3'>;
The import object generated by getImportObject can be easily used in instantiate() calls
produced by jco transpile (with --instantiation=async):
import { WASIShim } from '@bytecodealliance/preview2-shim/instantiation';
// The code below assumes that you have output your transpiled WebAssembly component to `dist/transpiled`
import { instantiate } from './dist/transpiled/component.js';
const loader = async (path: string) => {
const buf = await readFile(`./dist/transpiled/${path}`);
return await WebAssembly.compile(buf.buffer as ArrayBuffer);
};
const component = await instantiate(loader, new WASIShim().getImportObject());
// TODO: Code that uses your component's exports goes here.
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license with the LLVM exception. See LICENSE for more details.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
FAQs
WASI Preview2 shim for JS environments
The npm package @bytecodealliance/preview2-shim receives a total of 135,584 weekly downloads. As such, @bytecodealliance/preview2-shim popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @bytecodealliance/preview2-shim demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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