Blog / Example of how to compile DataFusion to WASM

[alamb]

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

It may not be clear that DataFusion can be compiled to WASM (and thus run in a browser), but it can be thanks to the work from @jonmmease @waynexia and others,

Check out this cool example from @XiangpengHao: https://parquet-viewer.haoxp.xyz/
Code here: https://github.com/XiangpengHao/parquet-viewer/tree/main

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like a blog (or well documented example) describing how to compile DataFusion as WASM and run it in the browser.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

[XiangpengHao]

I plan to write something about compiling datafusion to wasm as well. It mostly works, but does need some tuning and adjustments for different purposes.

[alamb]

Here are some other examples from @waynexia

https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-wasm-playground
https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-wasm-bindings

[waynexia]

Cross reference datafusion-contrib/datafusion-wasm-bindings#2. The binding itself should be a good example (but not yet). I'll try to update it against the latest upstream and write some dev-guide.

[waynexia]

There is a developer guide for building, debugging, and publishing the WASM bindings: https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-wasm-bindings/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md (forget to link 🙈)