WebAssembly with Go: Taking Web Apps to the Next Level

You might’ve noticed the increasing chatter around WebAssembly (WASM) in the dev community. Its potential is vast, and we’ve found it invaluable in enhancing our open source project! Hi everyone, I’m part of the team behind Permify , an open-source infra that helps developers to create and manage granular permissions throughout their applications. In this article, I’ll demonstrate why and how we integrated WebAssembly (WASM) into our Playground and gained benefits from its collaboration with Golang. What does this playground do? Well, without diving too deep, its a interactive module of Permify which used for creating and testing authorization models. Throughout this post, I’ll be sharing: A brief explanation of WASM and the benefits of using it with Go. A peek into what spurred our choice to integrate WASM in Permify. WASM Implementation, including Quick Warm Up: WASM Implementation with Go Deeper Dive: Permify’s WASM Code Breakdown Frontend: Steps to Embed Go WASM in a React Applicat