Running Hello World with Emscripten in Node.js

Learn how to run an Emscripten-generated WebAssembly binary with a Node.js server.

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In this section, we’ll see how to convert C/C++ code into the WebAssembly binary via Emscripten and run it along with Node.js.

Let’s follow the tradition of Brian Kernighan, by writing “Hello, world” with a slight twist. Let’s do a “Hello, Web”:

  1. First, we create a hello_web.c file:

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