flat buffers and Javascript about flatbuffers

URL about glTF

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF

JavaScript support is indeed very desirable, we just haven't gotten to it yet. If someone wants to contribute code for it, that be helpful too.

I wonder if the rust implementation can be compiled to JavaScript via emscripten.

[rodrigob]

On paper, the generated C++ should work out of the box with emscripten (to be tried).

If anyone tries this, I'd love to hear their experience :)

[rodrigob]

Just had flatbuffers working via emscripten. Works like a charm.

Moved from a custom serialization format (from dlib.net); the resulting file is smaller and it is parsing is much faster. Flatbuffers for the win !

Overall I only had excellent experiences with emscripten.
Get a zero dependencies project to compile with cmake. Then launch emcmake cmake . && make and tada!, you are good to go.
Since flatbuffers has no run-time dependencies (only needs to include flatbuffer.h at compilation time), it is a perfect fit for the emscripten scenario.

That's good to hear! thanks for testing :)

[louisremi]

Would it be possible to have the emscripten port distributed as an NPM package?

The JS implementation has been merged, please try it out. Currently lacking documentation however.

[joeblew99]

@gwvo thanks. Will kick the tires

[ThePrimeagen]

Quick question, I see that --gen-mutable is not supported in JS. Is there a plan to support this? I see nothing in the issues. @gwvo

It may take me quite a while to get to, especially since I am not a JS expert :)
@evanw is the original author.
PR's welcome.

[ThePrimeagen]

I may have some time to explore for a bit. I'll see what I can come up with shortly.

Cool, thanks!