Roadmap

Your learning path to mastering Rust + WebAssembly

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Phase 1: Foundations

What is WebAssembly?

Understand the big picture

Rust Basics

Essential syntax for Wasm

Hello Wasm

Your first Wasm project

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Phase 2: First Project

wasm-bindgen

The Rust↔JS bridge

DOM Manipulation

Control the browser from Rust

Setting Up a Project

Create your first project from scratch

Debugging Wasm

Console logging, panic hooks, DevTools

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Phase 3: Real-World Applications

Fetch API

HTTP requests with async/await

Crypto Hashing

CPU-intensive Wasm use case

Canvas & 2D Graphics

Draw and animate with Canvas

State Management

Share state between Rust and JS

File Processing

CSV, images, downloads

WebSockets

Real-time communication

Error Handling

Result, JsValue, panic hooks

Testing Wasm

Unit tests and browser tests

Image Processing

Pixel manipulation at native speed

Wasm Memory Model

Linear memory, pages, views

String Handling

UTF-8 vs UTF-16, optimization

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Phase 4: Advanced Projects

Particle Simulation

High-performance graphics

Wasm + Web Workers

Multi-threaded computation

Audio Processing

Real-time audio with Web Audio API

Building a Wasm Game

Game loop, input, collision

Wasm + Frameworks

React, Svelte, Vue integration

Deploying to Production

Optimize, bundle, ship

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Phase 5: Expert

Performance Profiling

Measure, optimize, shrink

Wasm Binary Format

WAT, sections, instructions

WASI: Wasm Outside Browser

Server-side, edge, CLI

Wasm Component Model

The future of WebAssembly

What's Next?

Start Your Own Project

Create a new project with wasm-pack and apply what you've learned

Try a Framework

Explore full-stack frameworks like Leptos, Yew, or Dioxus

Join the Community

Connect with other developers in the Rust Wasm Working Group and Discord