Conway's Game of Life with Rust & WebAssembly

This implementation of Conway's Game of Life is based on this tutorial. All the Rust code that is compiled into WebAssemby is in ./gol_wasm. It is used in the web app in the ./app directory. Here are the instruction how to run it on the local system:

Requirements

• install Rust
• install wasm-pack
• install cargo-generate with this command: cargo install cargo-generate
• install NodeJs if not yet on your system (version 14.x or later)
• install yarn: npm install -g yarn

Build WebAssembly Files

• open terminal and go into ./gol_wasm
• run yarn build

Run Game of Life App

• open second terminal and go into ./app
• run yarn start
• open URL http://localhost:8080/