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Dev tools · May 10, 2022

We have built WASM-based JavaScript client adapter for Memgraph

Hi everyone! For our graph database, Memgraph [1], we have just built a WASM-based JavaScript client adapter called jsmgclient. One of our engineers has described in depth the process that he has used to achieve this. [2] If you have used WASM can you take a look at our approach and tell us what you think about our approach? Do you see any things that we should have done differently? [1] https://memgraph.com/ [2] https://memgraph.com/blog/wasm-introducing-the-very-first-wa...

We have built WASM-based JavaScript client adapter for Memgraph launched on May 10, 2022 with 17 votes, #878 of 2,942 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

In plain words

jsmgclient is a WebAssembly-based JavaScript client adapter for Memgraph, a graph database. It enables JavaScript developers to connect to and query Memgraph from web applications. The adapter was built using WebAssembly to provide direct browser access to the database. It is designed for developers working with graph databases who want to use JavaScript in their client applications.

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From the sources

The last part of the series introduces the very first Memgraph WASM client jsmgclient.

It’s Kostas again, and this is the last article of my WebAssembly series. In case you missed it, here is Part 1 and Part 2 . Today I will finally talk about how jsmgclient , Memgraph’s WASM-based JavaSript client adapter, came to life. For the compiler toolchain, I decided to use Emscripten since it bundles nicely with JS (if you recall from the previous article, the system libraries are exported in JS, which provides a nice native integration). Moreover, Emscripten integrates nicely with cmake , making it easy to extend the current build scripts of mgclient . Therefore, after a set of small changes to the codebase, I managed to add WASM as a compilation target of mgclient . The best part…from memgraph.com

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