Integrating wasm-pack into Game of Life

[rustwasm]

Integrating wasm-pack into Game of Life

[mgattozzi]

cc/ @rustwasm/wasm-pack, @rustwasm/book, @rustwasm/core

[fitzgen]

Do we want to do this or would it be better as an appendix resource as it currently is?

I think we want this integrated directly.

This is the blessed happy-path workflow we want to steer people towards, so our tutorial should show it to them.

If we do integrate it what would the scope be?

How would we want to change the tutorial to work with it?

The way I'm imagining it, we would have users publish their own GoL crate to npm. First, publishing the version that renders to a string, and then using that as an npm dependency with webpack in the webpage. Then, when implementing exposing the raw wasm memory for the cells to JS, we would have them publish a new version of the crate to npm, and then update the JS on the website.

Basically, make the code / workflow more like the existing wasm-pack tutorial, but with the GoL content.

How would we change the template to work with it?

Perhaps we wouldn't use the existing template, but one of the new ones that @ag_dubs is working on?

[sendilkumarn]

I think it makes sense for people to get the flavour by publishing, so we can just publish things as is to npm. It will also enable people to use the library more easily (atleast for those from JS background to get started quickly)

[fitzgen]

I think this needs to be done for Rust 2018 edition, so adding the "Blocking Rust 2018" label.

[fitzgen]

PR for this: #78