Awesome WebAssembly

A curation of WebAssembly resources, projects, and communities.

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications.

Contents

• Resources
• Basics
• Articles
• Books
• Videos
• Projects
• Compilers
• Runtimes
• Libraries
• Tools
• Frameworks
• Communities

Resources

Basics

• WebAssembly MDN
• WebAssembly Specification

Articles

• What is WebAssembly? - Eric Elliott, 2015.
• 7 Things You Should Know About WebAssembly - Sebastian Peyrott, 2015.
• WebAssembly Demystified - Andre Weissflog, 2017.
• Why WebAssembly? - Andreas Rossberg, 2018.
• The world's easiest introduction to WebAssembly - Martin Olsansky, 2019.
• The Future of Programming: WebAssembly & Life After JavaScript - Eric Elliott, 2024.
• The Web Assembles - Chris Price and Colin Eberhardt, 2017.
• An Empirical Study of Real-World WebAssembly Binaries - Aaron Hilbig, Daniel Lehmann, and Michael Pradel, 2021.
• Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code - Abhinav Jangda, Bobby Powers, Emery D. Berger, and Arjun Guha, 2019.
• Provably-Safe Multilingual Software Sandboxing using WebAssembly - Jay Bosamiya, Wen Shih Lim, and Bryan Parno, 2022.
• Wasabi: A Framework for Dynamically Analyzing WebAssembly - Daniel Lehmann and Michael Pradel, 2019.
• Bringing the Web up to Speed with WebAssembly - Andreas Haas, Andreas Rossberg, Derek L. Schuff, Ben L. Titzer, Michael Holman, Dan Gohman, Luke Wagner, Alon Zakai, JF Bastien, 2017.

Books

• Rust and WebAssembly - Open-source book describing how to use Rust and WebAssembly together.
• Programming WebAssembly with Rust - Kevin Hoffman, 2019.
• The Art of WebAssembly - Rick Battagline, 2021.

Videos

• WebAssembly - Nick Bray, 2015.
• What is WebAssembly? - Lin Clark, 2017.
• Get Going with WebAssembly - Johan Brandhorst, 2018.
• WebAssembly and the Death of JavaScript - Colin Eberhardt, 2018.

Projects

Compilers

• Emscripten - Compile C and C++ to WebAssembly.
• AssemblyScript - TypeScript-like language compiled to WebAssembly.
• Binaryen - Compiler infrastructure for WebAssembly.
• TinyGo - Go compiler for WebAssembly.

Runtimes

• Wasmtime - Standalone WebAssembly runtime.
• WasmEdge - High-performance WebAssembly runtime.
• WAVM - WebAssembly virtual machine.
• Wasm3 - Small, fast WebAssembly interpreter.
• Wasmer - WebAssembly runtime for desktop, cloud, and edge.

Libraries

• wasm-bindgen - Interoperability between Rust and JavaScript.
• wasmer-js - WebAssembly runtime for JavaScript.
• wasm-pack - Build, test, and publish Rust-generated Wasm.
• Wabt - WebAssembly binary tolkit.
• WASI - WebAssembly system interface.

Tools

• Wasm Explorer - Visualize and debug WebAssembly binaries.