SQLite was one of the first large C code bases to be ported to the web. Alon Zakai (@kripken, the creator of emscripten), made the first commit to sql.js at the start of 2012 [0]. I got involved two years later, and have been maintaining sql.js since. A lot was added since 2012, but the initial core api with 3 functions 'open', 'exec', and 'close' still works today.
> Folks have been building sqlite3 for WASM since as far back as 2012
for *the web*, not for WASM. SQLite was initially compiled to simple javascript, then to asm.js when it appeared, then to WASM when it replaced asm.js :)
The sql.js project is older than the idea of WASM itself. And I like to think it contributed to showing the potential of compiling native code to the browser, and in the creation of the WASM standard.
Docs have been updated. Thank you for the feedback! Edit: for future feedback (from anyone reading this) i can be reached via stephan at sqlite org. i'm unlikely to catch most doc feedback posted to HN.
https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/commit/cebd80648dbd369b348...