Angie enables WebAssembly support#

29.11.2024

The update enables building WASM modules for Angie to load and use them in the server's configuration.

Angie Software presents a major update to the functionality of the Angie web server: a number of modules that enable WebAssembly (WASM) support, along with a dedicated SDK that allows building Angie-aware WASM modules using higher-level abstractions.

This server-side implementation provide developers with two options:

  • Develop WASM modules that can be invoked in the configuration at almost any request processing stage, using their language of preference

  • Develop and run Angie modules that make use of the server's newly minted WASM functionality

The three modules that enable WebAssembly support are:

All three modules can be installed as pre-built Angie packages. The documentation for the modules and their configuration directives is available at our website.

The source code for the modules, the SDK, and examples that use all of these are available in our repositories:

  • Angie WASM Modules: Source code of the Angie modules that enable WASM code execution, along with a number of sample Angie modules that extend the server's WASM functionality.

  • Angie WASM SDK: Provides interface definitions and libraries to build WASM modules for Angie with higher-level abstractions.

  • WASM Module Examples: Examples in C and Rust showcasing ways to write Angie-enabled WASM modules using the Angie WASM SDK.