Talking Drupal #478 - WEBAssembly

Today we are talking about WEBAssembly, How it’s used, and cool
things you can use it for with Drupal with guest Matt Glaman.
We’ll also cover Darkmode JS as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/478
Topics

What is WebAssembly

Progressive Web Aoos

Open source

Does it have a community

Browser support

How does it work

Common use cases

How can you use this with Drupal

This was an early concept for Drupal trial

Challenges

Wordpress playground

Pieces that do not work for PHP

Are there risks

Are there resources for people that want to use WebAssembly

Do you see it being used with Drupal

Resources

WEBAssembly

WEBAssembly history

Browser support

2038

WordPress Playground

https://playground.wordpress.net

https://github.com/adamziel



Slides from Barcelona: The Web APIs powering the Starshot
trial:

https://mglaman.dev/sites/default/files/2024-09/The Web
APIs powering the Starshot trial experience.pdf


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJVM_uDGD5I&list=PLpeDXSh4nHjQOfQV-BUgoxHXlr4tHlhPO&index=64



Guests

Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Suzanne Dergacheva - evolvingweb.com pixelite
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted your Drupal site to provide a widget
that allows visitors to go over to the dark side of your
theme? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Darkmode JS



Brief history

How old: created in May 2022 by Arthur Baghdasaryan
(arthur.baghdasar) of Last Call Media

Versions available: 1.0.7 which works with Drupal 9, 10,
and 11



Maintainership

Actively maintained

Security coverage

Number of open issues: 1 open issues which is a bug
against the current branch, but is postponed, waiting for
more info



Usage stats:

89 sites



Module features and usage

The module is a wrapper for the DarkmodeJS library which
gets 1,000 weekly downloads, according to NPM. That library
does have its own demo / tutorial site, so if you want to
understand the options it exposes, we will add a link in the
show notes

The module provides options to control where on the page
you want the widget to appear, what colors it should use,
whether or not to store a user’s choices in cookies, and
whether or not to automatically match a visitor’s OS theme
setting of light/dark

Installing the module currently requires making some
changes to your site’s composer.json file, then configuring
how you want the widget to appear, and then placing the block
in your site theme

The module also doesn’t currently include a schema file
for its configuration, which can cause challenges
particularly for sites that run automated tests