WASM Crossword Generator

wasm_crossword_generator is a library for generating and operating crossword puzzles with first-class WebAssembly (WASM) support targeting the browser and other WASM environments. While fully functional and ergonomic as a Rust library, the design is WASM-first so some trade-offs are made such as not using const generics, avoiding Option<Option<T>> because of ambiguity during JSON de/serialization, and using structs over tuples.

The most basic example of usage in pure Rust looks like:

use wasm_crossword_generator::*;

let words: Vec<Word> = vec![
  Word { text: "library".to_string(), clue: Some("Not a framework.".to_string()) },
  // In a real usage, there would be more entries.
];

// A real SolutionConf would probably want "requirements" to allow for retrying crossword
// generation. Because there is only one word, we know we'll get the world's simplest puzzle in
// one try.
let solution_conf = SolutionConf {
    words: words,
    max_words: 20,
    width: 10,
    height: 10,
    requirements: None,
    initial_placement: None,
};

// A PerWordPuzzle is one where the player only guesses words, not locations. The player is
// immediately informed if the guess is correct or not.
let mut puzzle = PerWordPuzzle::new(solution_conf)?;

let guess = PlacedWord {
  // Because it is a PerWordPuzzle, the placement is ignored, unlike other Playmodes.
  placement: Placement { x: 0, y: 0, direction: rand::random() },
  // NOTE: you don't need to match the "clue" field, it is ignored for purposes of PartialEq
  word: Word { text: "library".to_string(), clue: None }
};
let guess_result = puzzle.guess_word(guess)?;

// Because there is only one word, the guess will result in "Complete" instead of "Correct"
assert_eq!(guess_result, GuessResult::Complete);

More detail is found in the offical documentation here. In the directory above this project, this crate is packaged for use in the brower and published to NPM, more details on that are found there.

An example site using this library can be viewed and played online here. The source of that site is meant to act as and example / demo and is found here.