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# Without a Bundler

[View full source code][code]

[code]: https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/tree/master/examples/without-a-bundler

This example shows how the `--target web` flag can be used load code in a
browser directly. For this deployment strategy bundlers like Webpack are not
required. For more information on deployment see the [dedicated
documentation][deployment].

First, you'll need to add `web-sys` to your Cargo.toml.
```toml
[dependencies.web-sys]
version = "0.3.4"
features = [
  'Document',
  'Element',
  'HtmlElement',
  'Node',
  'Window',
]
```

Then, let's take a look at the code and see how when we're using `--target web`
we're not actually losing any functionality!

```rust
{{#include ../../../examples/without-a-bundler/src/lib.rs}}
```

Otherwise the rest of the deployment magic happens in `index.html`:

```html
{{#include ../../../examples/without-a-bundler/index.html}}
```

And that's it! Be sure to read up on the [deployment options][deployment] to see
what it means to deploy without a bundler.

[deployment]: ../reference/deployment.html

## Using the older `--target no-modules`

[View full source code][code-no-modules]

[code-no-modules]: https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/tree/master/examples/without-a-bundler-no-modules

The older version of using `wasm-bindgen` without a bundler is to use the
`--target no-modules` flag to the `wasm-bindgen` CLI.

While similar to the newer `--target web`, the `--target no-modules` flag has a
few caveats:

* It does not support [local JS snippets][snippets]
* It does not generate an ES module

With that in mind the main difference is how the wasm/JS code is loaded, and
here's an example of loading the output of `wasm-pack` for the same module as
above.

```html
{{#include ../../../examples/without-a-bundler-no-modules/index.html}}
```

[snippets]: ../reference/js-snippets.html

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