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😎 Curated list of awesome things regarding WebAssembly (wasm) ecosystem.

Awesome Wasm

Collection of awesome things regarding WebAssembly (wasm) ecosystem.

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Contents

• General Resources
• Online Playground
• Tutorials
• Compilers
• Non-Web Embeddings
• Projects
  • Web frameworks-libraries
  • Data processing
  • WebGL
  • webpack
  • Browserify
  • node.js
  • .NET
  • Others
• Languages
  • Esoteric
  • JavaScript-family
  • Lua
  • OCAML
  • Python
  • Rust
  • WASM-like
• Tools
  • Kits
  • Editor
• Gists
• Examples
• Benchmarks
• Articles
• Video
• Slides
• Community
• Books
• Papers
• Demos
• Resources in other languages
  • Simple Chinese
  • Russian
  • Spanish

General Resources

• Official Site
• Github
• WebAssembly MDN
• WebAssembly Wikipedia
• WebAssembly Specification
• WebAssembly and Friends Roadmap
• WebAssembly Rocks

Online Playground

• WebAssembly Explorer
• WebAssembly Playground
• WasmFiddle
• Assembleash - WebAssembly and Typescript-like languages playground
• Wat2Wasm
• Wasm2Wat
• WebAssembly Studio

Tutorials

• Developer's Guide
• WebAssembly Physics and DOM objects (2018)
• egghead.io: Get Started Using WebAssembly (WASM)(2017)
• The Path to Rust on the Web (2017)
• WebAssembly 101: a developer first steps (2017)
• Emscripten/HTML Integration Tips (2017)
• Compiling Rust to WebAssembly Guide (2017)
• How to get a performance boost using WebAssembly (2017)
• Getting Started With WebAssembly in Node.js (2017)
• Build Your First Thing With WebAssembly (2016)
• WebAssembly — The missing tutorial (2016)
• Webassembly initial steps tutorial (2016)

Compilers

• Emscripten - LLVM-based project that compiles C and C++
• Binaryen - Binaryen is a compiler and toolchain infrastructure library for WebAssembly, written in C++
• Rust - A safe, concurrent, practical language
• ilwasm - CIL to WebAssembly compiler
• WebAssembly for the GNU Toolchain
• faust2 - Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis
• Asterius - A Haskell to WebAssembly compiler
• PPCI.wasm - PPCI Can compile wasm to machine code and run it in the Python process

Non-Web Embeddings

• wac - WebAssembly in C (x86)
• Asmble - WebAssembly on the JVM
• wasmachine - WebAssembly in a FPGA

Projects

Web frameworks-libraries

• asm-dom - A minimal WebAssembly virtual DOM to build C++ SPA
• Blazor - Microsoft's experimental web UI framework using C#/Razor and HTML, running client-side via WebAssembly
• Yew - Rust framework for making client web apps
• Perspective - Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

Data processing

• jq-web - the JSON processing tool jq ported to the web with Emscripten

WebGL

• ammo.js - direct port of the Bullet physics engine to JavaScript using Emscripten
• Particle System - an experiment designed to benchmark web technologies: ES6, Emscripten and Web Assembly
• Oryol - a small, portable 3D coding framework written in C++

webpack

• wasm-loader - WASM webpack loader
• cpp-wasm-lader - C/C++ to WASM Webpack loader optimized for small bundle sizes

Browserify

• rustify - Rust WebAssembly transform for Browserify

node.js

• webassembly - A minimal toolkit and runtime to produce and run WebAssembly modules.
• wasm-pack - pack up the wasm and publish it to npm!

.NET

• Uno Platform - An implementation of Microsoft's UWP APIs for iOS/Android/WebAssembly, using C#/XAML on top of mono-wasm
• Ooui.Wasm - A Xamarin.Forms backend for WebAssembly, using C#/XAML on top of mono-wasm

Others

• wasm-init - Work environment and code generator for WebAssembly projects
• wasm - Python WebAssembly decoder & disassembler library
• MXnet.js - ASM.js build of MXNet, deep learning (neural nets and so) library
• YAKC - a multi-system 8-bit emulator written in C++
• Eufa - a high efficient utility functions library written in webassembly
• Argon2 in browser - Argon2 library compiled for browser runtime
• cld3-asm - Wasm based JS binding for Google compact language detector 3
• hunspell-asm - Wasm based JS binding for Hunspell spellchecker
• wasm-bindgen - Interoperating JS and Rust code

Languages

Esoteric

• funge.js - A Befunge JIT

JavaScript-family

• TurboScript - A TypeScript-like language that compiles to asm.js and WebAssembly
• speedy.js - Accelerate JavaScript Applications by Compiling to WebAssembly
• AssemblyScript - A subset of TypeScript that compiles to WebAssembly

Lua

• wasm_lua - Lua VM running in a WASM environment

OCAML

• ocamlrun-wasm - OCaml Bytecode Interpreter in WASM

Python

• Pyodide - The Python scientific stack running in the browser
• Rocket game - Rocket, written in Rust, compiled to WASM, running in Python (using PPCI)

Rust

• Rusty Web
• parity-wasm - WebAssembly interpreter, decoder and encoder in pure Rust

TCL

• wacl - Tcl Interpreter in WASM with browser extensions

WASM-like

• wah - a slightly higher-level language superset of webassembly
• Walt - Alternative Syntax for WebAssembly

Tools

Kits

• WABT - A suite of tools that help working with WASM binary files
• webassembly-binary-toolkit - The WABT tools installable as an npm package

Editor

• vim-wasm - WebAssembly filetype support for Vim
• vscode wast - WebAssembly(S-expression) support
• Atom language-wast
• vscode-wasm - WebAssembly toolkit for vscode

Gists

• Standalone WebAssembly Example
• helloworld.wast
• Using WebAssembly in LLVM
• Calling alert from WebAssembly (WASM)

Examples

• webassembly-examples
• Factorial in WebAssembly
• WebAssembly vs. JavaScript Animation Demo
• Web DSP
• wasm-intro - Tiny WebAssembly Examples with LLVM/clang and C
• webassembly-examples - From Simple To Complex.
• D3 force layout with WebAssembly
• wasmBoy - Gameboy Emulator Library written in Web Assembly using AssemblyScript
• CppOpenGLWebAssemblyCMake - C++/OpenGL/OpenAL/GLFW/GLM based app built with CMake to native or WebAssembly

Benchmarks

• WebAssembly Video Editor
• 3D skeletal animation system
• Cubes JS vs Cubes (WebAssembly)
• JavaScript vs WebAssembly easy benchmark
• Performance Testing Web Assembly vs JavaScript
• A Real-World WebAssembly Benchmark by PSPDFKit

Articles

• Writing WebAssembly By Hand (2018)
• Ruby on WebAssembly (2018)
• Optimizing WebAssembly Startup Time - 4 simple yet effective solutions to reduce load time. (2018)
• WebAssembly: A New Hope (2017)
• Creating a WebAssembly module instance with JavaScript (2017)
• Memory in WebAssembly (and why it’s safer than you think) (2017)
• WebAssembly table imports… what are they? (2017)
• WebAssembly Demystified (2017)
• A cartoon intro to WebAssembly (2017)
• Creating and working with WebAssembly modules (2017)
• What makes WebAssembly fast? (2017)
• Where is WebAssembly now and what’s next? (2017)
• Web Games Platform: Newest Developments (2017)
• Why WebAssembly is Faster Than asm.js (2017)
• Firefox 52: Introducing Web Assembly, CSS Grid and the Grid Inspector (2017)
• Previewing the WebAssembly Explorer (2017)
• Why WebAssembly is a game changer for the web — and a source of pride for Mozilla and Firefox (2017)
• Introduction to WebAssembly (2017)
• Boost your Web Application with C++! Emscripten, ASM.js, Web Assembly ... (2016)
• What is WebAssembly? (2015)
• 7 Things You Should Know About WebAssembly (2015)
• WebAssembly: a binary format for the web (2015)
• Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening! (2015)
• The Future of Programming: WebAssembly & Life After JavaScript (2015)

Video

• Build the future of the web with WebAssembly and more (Google I/O '18)
• WebAssembly and the Death of JavaScript?
• Practical WebAssembly
• A Cartoon Intro to WebAssembly (2017)
• WebAssembly Demystified (2017)
• Meeting C++ 2016: Implementing a web game in C++14 - Kris Jusiak (2016)
• CppCon 2016: Dan Gohman “C++ on the Web: Let's have some serious fun." (2016)
• NYLUG Presents: Luke Wagner -on- WebAssembly: A New Compiler Target For The Web (2016)
• WebAssembly and the Future of the Browser (2016)
• From ASM.JS to WebAssembly (2015)
• WebAssembly and the Future of the Web (2017)
• Web Assembly - Nick Bray - GOTO 2015 - (2015)
• Web Assembly - Nick Bray - BlinkOn 5 - (2016)
• Compiling for the Web with WebAssembly (Google I/O '17)
• Real World WebAssembly (Chrome Dev Summit 2017)

Slides

• Boost your web application with C++ (2016)
• WebAssembly (Do we all have to learn C now?)
• WebAssembly (2016)
• WebAssembly overview (2016)
• Emscripten and WebAssembly (2015)
• An intro to WebAssembly (2015)

Community

• W3C Community Group
• StackOverflow
• Twitter
• Slack: WebAssembly Developers (click here to get an invitation)
• WasmWeekly - a weekly newsletter
• WebAssembly AMA

Papers

• Bringing the Web up to Speed with WebAssembly
• The Web Assembles

Books

• WebAssembly Reference Manual

Demos

• Tanks - a Unity game which has been exported to WebAssembly
• Cubes - direct port of the Bullet physics engine
• Basic4GL
• Symatem - an Ontology Engine, Visualizer, and Editor
• Epic Zen Garden
• Funky Karts
• PSPDFKit for Web - a WebAssembly-based PDF viewer with annotation features
• Uno Platform Playground - a WebAssembly-based XAML playground
• Roslyn Quoter - a WebAssembly-based Roslyn-based C# code quoter

Resources in other languages

Simple Chinese

• WebAssembly 中文网
• WebAssembly 中文社区
• WebAssembly 中文文档
• WebAssembly-cn Orgnization

Russian

• KharkivJS #5: Serious JS (Kharkiv, Ukraine, November 7, 2015) - WebAssembly: new era of Web (video)
• OdessaJS 2017 - Real world WebAssembly (video)
• Урок-введение по WebAssembly на примере игры “Жизнь” (article)

Spanish

• Compilando para el navegador con WebAssembly (article)

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