Conway's Game of Life with Rust & WebAssembly

This implementation of Conway's Game of Life is based on this tutorial. All the Rust code that is compiled into WebAssemby is in ./gol_wasm. It is used in the web app in the ./app directory. Here are the instruction how to run it on the local system:

Requirements

install Rust
install wasm-pack
install cargo-generate with this command: cargo install cargo-generate
install NodeJs if not yet on your system (version 14.x or later)
install yarn: npm install -g yarn

Build WebAssembly Files

open terminal and go into ./gol_wasm
run yarn build

Run Game of Life App

open second terminal and go into ./app
run yarn install
run yarn start
open URL http://localhost:8080/