Lua in the Browser, with Rust and WebAssembly

This smol book describes how to use Lua in the Browser, powered by Rust WebAssembly.

Read the book

🛠 Building the Book

The book is made using mdbook:

$ cargo install mdbook

Make sure the cargo install directory is in your $PATH so that you can run the binary.

To build it, simply run this command from this directory:

$ mdbook build

This will build the book and output files into the book directory. From there you can navigate to the index.html file to view it in your browser.

You could also run the following command to automatically build the book whenever you make changes to it in the src directory:

$ mdbook serve

This book also contains a little demo/repl which is able to execute arbitrary Lua code in the browser via WebAssembly. To build the required files, run the following command:

$ BOOK_OUTPUT_PATH="$PWD/book" cargo build --release --target wasm32-unknown-emscripten --manifest-path=lua-playground/Cargo.toml

Make sure to run this command after you build the book. Also, you have to re-run it everytime when the book is rebuilt.

⚖ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for more details.