The Art of Webassembly: Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications

A a thorough, practice-based introduction to WebAssembly. Learn how to create high-performing, lightning-fast websites and applications.

WebAssembly is the fast, compact, portable technology that optimizes the performance of resource-intensive web applications and programs. The Art of WebAssembly is designed to give web developers a solid understanding of how it works, when to use it (and when not to), and how to develop and deploy WebAssembly apps.

First you'll learn how to optimize and compile low-level code, debug and evaluate WebAssembly, and represent WebAssembly in the human-readable WebAssembly Text (WAT) format. Once you have the basics down, you'll build a browser-based collision detection program, work with browser rendering technologies to create graphics and animations, and see how WebAssembly interacts with other web languages.

You'll also learn how to:
- Embed WebAssembly applications in web browsers and Node.js
- Use browser debuggers to evaluate your WebAssembly code
- Format variables, loops, functions, strings, data structures, and conditional logic in WAT
- Manipulate memory
- Build a program that generates graphical objects and detects when they collide
- Evaluate the output of a WebAssembly compiler

The Art of WebAssembly will help you make sense of this powerful technology to boost the performance of your web applications.

《WebAssembly的藝術》是一本基於實踐的全面介紹WebAssembly的書籍。學習如何創建高效、快速的網站和應用程序。WebAssembly是一種快速、緊湊、可移植的技術，可優化資源密集型的網絡應用程序和程式。《WebAssembly的藝術》旨在讓網絡開發人員對其工作原理有深入的理解，了解何時使用它（以及何時不使用），以及如何開發和部署WebAssembly應用程序。首先，您將學習如何優化和編譯低級代碼，調試和評估WebAssembly，以及以人類可讀的WebAssembly Text（WAT）格式表示WebAssembly。一旦掌握了基礎知識，您將構建一個基於瀏覽器的碰撞檢測程序，使用瀏覽器渲染技術創建圖形和動畫，並了解WebAssembly如何與其他網絡語言交互。您還將學習以下內容：- 在Web瀏覽器和Node.js中嵌入WebAssembly應用程序- 使用瀏覽器調試器評估您的WebAssembly代碼- 在WAT中格式化變量、循環、函數、字符串、數據結構和條件邏輯- 操作內存- 構建生成圖形對象並檢測碰撞的程序- 評估WebAssembly編譯器的輸出《WebAssembly的藝術》將幫助您理解這項強大的技術，以提升您的網絡應用程序的性能。

Rick Battagline is a game developer and author of Hands-On Game Development with WebAssembly (Packt Publishing, 2019). In 2006 he founded BattleLine Games LLC, an independent game studio focused on web games. Since then, he has written hundreds of games developed in various web technologies including WebAssembly, HTML5, WebGL, JavaScript, TypeScript, ActionScript, and PHP. He's a member of the WebAssembly Community Group, and the AssemblyScript Community Group.

Rick Battagline 是一位遊戲開發者，也是《Hands-On Game Development with WebAssembly》（Packt Publishing，2019）一書的作者。他於2006年創立了BattleLine Games LLC，一家專注於網頁遊戲的獨立遊戲工作室。自那時以來，他已經使用各種網頁技術（包括WebAssembly、HTML5、WebGL、JavaScript、TypeScript、ActionScript和PHP）開發了數百款遊戲。他是WebAssembly社群組和AssemblyScript社群組的成員。