Cook the Books – making WebAssembly accountable

As mentioned before, WebAssembly's current feature set is rather limited. We can use Emscripten to greatly extend the capabilities of a web application, but that carries the cost of noncompliance with the official specification and the addition of glue code. We can still use WebAssembly effectively today, which brings us to the application we'll build in this chapter. In this section, we will review the libraries and tools we'll use to build the application, as well as a brief overview of its functionality.

Overview and functionality

In WebAssembly's current form, we can pass numbers between a Wasm module and JavaScript code with relative ease. An accounting application seems like a logical choice in terms of real-world applicability. The only contention I have with accounting software is that it's a little boring (no offense). We're going to spice it up a bit by building in some unethical accounting practices. The application is named Cook the...