Javascript Implementation?

[Rxann]

Hi, I am wondering if there is a Javascript Implementation of chafa? If so this would be great!

[hpjansson]

Hi! It's possible to compile it to WebAssembly, which means you'll be able to use it in a Javascript program.

Now there are no official Wasm builds, but @oakes managed to pull it off in https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/issues/41. The best I can offer right now is to follow in his footsteps.

I'm open to having a discussion on how this can be made easier; maybe we should integrate the cut-down GLib @oakes made and the config files, plus an ad-hoc build script, something like that. Ideally, ./configure would have a --with-integrated-glib switch and maybe some extra setting for Wasm output, where the config.h and such are generated by Automake, but that's a serious effort and would make configure.ac much bigger.

[hpjansson]

Javascript bindings exist now, thanks to the amazing work of Héctor Molinero Fernández! Here's his repository: https://github.com/hectorm/chafa-wasm

Please let me know if this is what you had in mind; if so we can close this issue.