Faster WebApps with WebAssembly

WebAssembly is a newer low level language that aims to make the web faster, safer and more flexible.

What is WASM? Why would I use it? How does wasm-flate use it to speed up webapps?

tldr: get the npm library or github repo

WebAssembly is really fast

WebAssembly aka WASM is a relatively new language that promises faster and richer web experiences. It’s recent been implemented in all major browsers.

WebAssembly is low level language that runs natively in browsers. Web apps focused on heavy computation can benefit greatly since WASM runs almost as fast at native code.

speed up — medium article

I wont get into a bunch of benchmarking test in this article — because a lot of other people have documented the sheer speed of WASM over JS check out some of the following examples

Benchmark Examples