pehota/rust-wasm-game-of-life

Implement Conway's Game of Life in Rust and WASM as an exercise

Conway's Game of Life in Rust + WASM

An exersise in Rust and WASM implementing Conway's Game of Life

Pre-requisites

• Make sure you have Rust (v 1.30 and up) installed
• Make sure you have wasm-pack installed
• Make sure you have npm installed
• Make sure you have the wasm32-unknown-unknown target (run rustup target list | grep wasm)

Setup

• Go to the www folder and run npm i in order to install all Javascript dependencies
• Go to the game's root folder and run wasm-pack build

  This will install all dependencies needed for compiling the game to wasm (it takes some time)

• Link the wasm module to npm by going into the newly generated folder pkg and running npm link. Then go to the www folder and run npm link wasm-game-of-life

Running the game

• Go to the www folder and run npm start