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Deno runtime support #501

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Detail experiment can be found here: readme

I think it's pretty easy to add Deno support. Deno can work almost like web runtime with wasm.
We just need to fix some hardcoded assumptions like fetch('/evernode.wasm') because this is too browser-specific.

  1. Right now the naive approach doesn't work yet. Consider:
import { TonClient } from "npm:@eversdk/core";
import { libWeb } from "npm:@eversdk/lib-web"; // or lib-node

TonClient.useBinaryLibrary(libWeb);

const client = new TonClient();
const { phrase } = await client.crypto.mnemonic_from_random({});
console.log(phrase);
client.close();

Will give us:

error: Could not resolve 'npm:@eversdk/lib-web'
  1. lib-node approach also doesn't work.

In short:

error: Uncaught TypeError: /root/.tonlabs/binaries/1/eversdk.node: undefined symbol: SSL_CTX_free

Seems like something with dynamic linking made for nodejs runtime. It feels easily fixable since Deno is made on Rust and Eversdk too.

UPD
3. Workaround: https://github.com/awnion/example-ever-sdk-deno/blob/main/deno-custom-wasm-url.ts

import { TonClient } from "npm:@eversdk/core";
// require npm i @eversdk/lib-web
import { libWeb, libWebSetup } from "./node_modules/@eversdk/lib-web/index.js";

// require npm i @eversdk/lib-web
libWebSetup({
  disableSeparateWorker: true,
  binaryURL: new URL(
    "./node_modules/@eversdk/lib-web/eversdk.wasm",
    import.meta.url,
  ),
});

TonClient.useBinaryLibrary(libWeb);
// ------------------------^^^^^^
// here linter will complain but it's OK

const client = new TonClient();
const { phrase } = await client.crypto.mnemonic_from_random({});
console.log(phrase);
client.close();

Whilst it works it's not very convenient because we have to manually import index.js from node_modules. The main concern is that we use two different ways of distribution:

  1. TonClient comes from npm: and we can't easily vendor it from node_modules since its internals link to each other node-js (or rather CommonJS) way.
  2. And vice versa lib-web can be imported only via index.js directly and doesn't work with npm: deno-way.

The ideal solution would be to have libDeno (or rather libWasm / libWasi / etc) for server-side WASM + deno modules deployed on Deno

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