embed vmsg.wasm directly

[transitive-bullshit]

It'd be great if vmsg.wasm was embedded directly via an ArrayBuffer or as a compile-time step.

Having the end user reference the URL of vmsg.wasm is pretty clunky, though I understand why it's setup that way at the moment.

[Kagami]

Unfortunately it won't be effecient. The whole point of WebAssembly is that it can be parsed fast. If you put it back into JavaScript file, you lose main benefits - compactness and small parsing time.

If you wish you can include vmsg.wasm with e.g. arraybuffer-loader:

const buffer = require("arraybuffer!./vmsg.wasm");
const blob = new Blob([buffer], {type: "application/wasm"});
const wasmURL = URL.createObjectURL(blob);

that will work.

[transitive-bullshit]

I ended up doing something similar for react-mp3-recorder. This doesn't seem particularly efficient, however.

[Kagami]

I've just tried, seems like you can just pass data URI to fetch directly:

> url = 'data:application/wasm;base64,' + btoa("123")
"data:application/wasm;base64,MTIz"
> fetch(url).then(res => res.arrayBuffer()).then(b => console.log(new Uint8Array(b)))
Uint8Array(3) [49, 50, 51]

[transitive-bullshit]

Good call -- just updated my impl.

[Kagami]

Can we close this now?