[Feature request] Inlining wasm binary

[riywo]

For some Node.js runtime environment such as AWS Lambda, it would be nice to have a pure JS implementation without extra file access like a wasm file because some bundling process doesn't recognize such extra files automatically.

Could you provide another package like re2-wasm-inline by inlining the wasm binary as a Buffer so that the extra wasm file isn't required?

Or, if your licensing term allows, I can also create such a package and publish it to npmjs on behalf.

Let me know your opinion!

See smithy-lang/smithy-typescript#733

This could also solve #15

[riywo]

Let me craft a PoC package.

[riywo]

This simple script worked:

const fs = require("fs");

fs.rmSync("build", { force: true, recursive: true });
fs.cpSync("node_modules/re2-wasm/build", "build", { recursive: true });

const wasm = fs.readFileSync("build/wasm/re2.wasm").toString("base64");
const js = fs.readFileSync("build/wasm/re2.js", { encoding: "utf8" });

fs.writeFileSync(
  "build/wasm/re2.js",
  `
var Module = {
  wasmBinary: Buffer.from("${wasm}", "base64"),
}
${js}
`
);

fs.rmSync("build/wasm/re2.wasm");