Let's say you have a WebAssembly application, and you would like to publish it to WAPM so more people can use it easily.

You might have a similar project structure:

/
  my_program_wasi.wasm
  my_other_program_wasi.wasm
  README.md
  LICENSE

Now, in the root of your project, you can simply run

wapm init

And it will guide you the process of creating a new wapm.toml file for your project. At the end, it should have generated a manifest like the following:

[package]
name = "username/my_package"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "The description of the package"
​
[[module]]
name = "my_program_wasi"
source = "my_program_wasi.wasm"
​
[[module]]
name = "my_other_program_wasi"
source = "my_other_program_wasi.wasm"

Now, you will need to:

1. ​Create an account in WAPM​

2. ​Login in locally into your WAPM account​

3. ​Publish the package to WAPM​

Creating an account in WAPM

Creating an account in WAPM is very easy, just go to the following url and sign up!

Login from the wapm CLI into your local account

Now that you are registered, you can just run the following command and it will ask for your credentials

wapm login

Publish the package to WAPM

Now that you have successfully created a wapm.toml manifest file for your project and have logged in into WAPM, you just need to run one more command!

wapm publish

And you package should now be live in wapm.io 🎉

Commands

Commands (not to be confused with wapm-cli subcommands) are a feature that enables easily executing Wasm code from a WAPM package.

Commands are what allows one to call the run subcommand, like above when running wapm run cowsay hello wapm!.

A command requires a name and module to reference:

[[command]]
name = "my_cmd"
module = "my_program_wasi"

Now called wapm run my_cmd will execute the module defined with the name my_program_wasi. Under the hood, wapm calls wasmer, the WebAssembly server runtime.

If you want to learn more about the manifest format, please jump into the next article!