This is a draft
To get started working on Vaporview, you will need the following installed and up to date:
Once those are installed, make sure you install the necessary packages:
npm installcargo update
To build and run, you should be able to use the Run and Debug utility in VScode. It will do the following steps automatically, but in case you need to do them individually (which does happen)
This compiles Rust code to a WASM blob
cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
Note that there are 2 tpyes of WASM compile options: "debug" and "release". The debug version is much slower, but compiles faster. This is good for general debug of functionality, but is not recommended for testing large files. To build a release version, use the following command:
cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release
You will also need to specify the release binary in extension.ts
This generates filehandler.ts. I opted to not check in this file since it's technically considered compiled/generated code. In the VScode extension examples, these files are checked in, and I spent an annoying amount of time trying to understand how it worked until I realized that I didn't need to understand it. In fact, the whole point of the .wit file and wit2ts tool is that we don't need to understand this file.
npm run generate:model
This "compiles" Typescript into Javascript.
tsc -b