Retrospective: building WebAssembly powered javascript module

I’ve recently implemented new spellchecker module to improve current implementation based on node.js native addon. Both are based on well-known spellchecker library Hunspell but new module enables possibility for performant spellchecking even on web browsers via WebAssembly. This post summarizes short retrospective around considerations and further improvements for those. Modules I implemented are Hunspell-asm for wasm bindings of hunspell spellchecker and Cld3-asm for Chromium’s languade detector CLD3. Additionally Electron-hunspell is published to use hunspell-asm in Electron based applications. ... Read more