AI libraries

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• WebLLM - Browser language-model inference engine accelerated with WebGPU.
• ONNX Runtime Web - Browser inference runtime with a WebGPU execution provider for ONNX models.
• Transformers.js - JavaScript machine-learning library with WebGPU acceleration through ONNX Runtime.

Articles

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• WebGPU - Wikipedia article.
• From WebGL to WebGPU in Construct - By Ashley Gullen.
• WebGPU - All of the cores, none of the canvas - Compute concepts and browser support as of 2022, by Surma.
• WebGPU Fundamentals - A set of articles to help learn WebGPU.
• PBR in WebGPU: implementation details - By Tomasz Czajecki.
• WebGPU Timestamps - By Amir Sojoodi.
• WebAssembly and WebGPU - Browser machine-learning performance enhancements, by Google.
• Graphics on the web and beyond with WebGPU - By Damien Seguin.
• Figma rendering: Powered by WebGPU - Production renderer migration case study covering shaders, batching, and fallbacks (2025).
• Compatibility mode and transient attachments - Chrome 146 implementation update covering broader hardware support and attachment optimizations (2026).
• Immediates in Chrome 149–150 - Browser implementation update on passing small amounts of frequently changed shader data (2026).
• WebGPU texture best practices - By Brandon Jones.
• WebGPU Buffer upload best practices - By Brandon Jones.
• Efficiently rendering glTF models - A WebGPU Case Study - By Brandon Jones.
• From WebGL to WebGPU - By Google.
• WebGPU for Dummies - By Amir Sojoodi.

Books

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• Practical WebGPU Graphics - by Jack Xu

Browser support

Chromium

• Chrome - Enabled on supported Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Android, and Linux configurations; consult the implementation status for hardware and operating system requirements.
• Edge - Chromium-based browser with WebGPU support on supported devices and operating systems.

Firefox

• Firefox Nightly - Preview implementation for testing upcoming support, including Linux and other Mac configurations.
• Firefox - Enabled on Windows and Apple Silicon Macs; other platforms have different rollout schedules.

Misc

• Implementation status - Platform support and rollout details maintained by GPUWeb.
• WebGPU browser support overview - Browser compatibility tables.
• WebGPU Report - Inspect the WebGPU features and limits available on your device.

Safari

• Safari Technology Preview - Preview browser for testing upcoming implementation changes.
• Safari 26 release notes - WebGPU ships enabled on macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and visionOS 26.

Bug reporting

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• Chromium
• Webkit
• Firefox

Community

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• GPU for the web community group - W3C Community.
• Public GPU - W3C Mailing list.
• Matrix WebGPU - General community chat.

Debuggers and Profilers

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• webgpu-inspector - Inspection debugger for WebGPU.
• WebGPU Dev Extension - Browser extension for validation diagnostics, memory tracking, and redundant-state detection.
• WebGPUReconstruct - Capture browser commands and replay them through native implementations for graphics debugging and profiling.
• wgpu-profiler - GPU timing and profiling utilities for Rust applications using wgpu.

Demos

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• Three.js WebGPU examples - A collection of examples from three.js using the WebGPU renderer - Repository
• Babylon.js Playground - By Babylon.js (Note: Select WebGPU in the top right corner).
• WebGPU Live Demo Editor - A collection of WebGPU examples by Hepp Maccoy - Repository
• Shadowray Playground - Demo of an experimental ray-tracing layer implemented with WebGPU compute shaders.
• Web Stable Diffusion - Early browser image-generation demo using WebGPU, with source code.
• WebGPU Memory Model Testing - Memory models testing suite, by Reese Levine et al., UC Santa Cruz - Repository
• WebGPU Path Tracing - A path tracer powered by WebGPU compute shaders, by Fermin Lozano - Repository
• WebGPU first-person exploration of the Sponza Palace - Scene render comparison between WebGL, WebGL 2.0 and WebGPU, by Brandon Jones - Repository
• WebGPU Clustered Shading - By Brandon Jones - Repository
• WebGPU Metaballs - By Brandon Jones - Repository
• Online WGSL Editor - By Takahiro - Repository
• WebGPU Particles - Calculate and render particles, by Daniel Toplak - Repository
• WebGPU Examples - A few examples of rendering algorithms implemented in WebGPU, by Tarek Sherif - Repository
• WebGPU-Playground - A playground to experiment with WebGPU, by @06wj - Repository
• WebGPU-Lab - Demos and experiments, focused on compute shaders, by Sebastian Macke - Repository
• Shader Graph WGSL - A node based shader editor, by deepkolos - Repository
• Marching Cubes WebGPU - Marching cubes implementation, by Conor O'Malley - Repository
• WebGPU Samples - A set of samples and demos demonstrating the use of the WebGPU API - Repository
• wgpu examples - Official list of examples from the wgpu library - Repository
• Forest WebGPU - A scene built with Babylon.js.
• WebGPU 2D Fluid Simulation - An implementation of "Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games" paper, by kishimisu - Repository
• Real-Time GPU Texture Compression Demo - Showcases the advantages of real-time texture compression. Compares models using KTX2 textures against AVIF + Spark.
• PlayCanvas WebGPU Demos - By PlayCanvas (Note: Select WebGPU in the top right corner).
• vgpu Shader on Live HTML - Shader demo applying WebGPU effects to HTML content; requires the experimental canvas-draw-element browser flag.
• RunMat Browser Sandbox - Browser playground for MATLAB-syntax numerical programs accelerated with WebGPU.
• DoG Studio - WebGPU image and video processing demo for configurable Difference-of-Gaussians line art and screentone effects, with source code.
• Points examples - Generative art demos covering particles, render passes, and other WebGPU techniques.
• Darkly.art - Open-source photo editor with an advanced WebGPU compositor written in Rust + WebAssembly - Repository
• Spookyball - A Halloween-themed, open source Breakout clone, by Brandon Jones - Repository
• Thimbleberry Image Transform Demo - An Image processing app built using Thimbleberry, by mighdoll - Repository
• WebGPU real-time ray tracer - A real-time ray tracer implementing the ReSTIR algorithm.

Gists

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• 2D - Signed distance field primitives in WGSL, by @munrocket.

Historical resources

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• A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox - Mozilla.org article by Dzmitry Malyshau.
• Point of WebGPU native - By Dzmitry Malyshau.
• Implementing WebGPU in Gecko - By Dzmitry Malyshau.
• A brief history of graphics on the web and WebGPU - By Ashley Gullen.
• wgpu-rs on the web - Rust Graphics Mages.
• Compiling Machine Learning to WebAssembly and WebGPU with Apache TVM - By Tianqi Chen & Jared Roesch.
• Next-generation 3D Graphics on the web - Webkit.org article by Dean Jackson.
• Raw WebGPU - An overview on how to write a WebGPU application, by Alain Galvan.
• Basic WebGPU Rendering - Summary of the steps to render a scene, by @ndesmic.
• WebGPU for Metal Developers Part 1 - part-two/) - Introduction to WebGPU from Apple's GPU API, Metal, by Warren Moore.
• Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU - Building a Ray tracer using a modified version of WebGPU implementation with Vulkan and DX12 ray tracing extensions, by Felix Maier.
• From WebGL to WebGPU: A perspective from Babylon js by David Catuhe
• Next-Generation 3D Graphics on the Web (Google I/O 2019)
• Building WebGPU with Rust - By Dzmitry Malyshau from Mozilla.
• YC Point of WebGPU on native - Discussion regarding this article.
• webgpu-devtools - Legacy alpha browser extension.
• webgpu-debugger - Legacy alpha debugger.
• Dawn RT - A fork of dawn with Ray tracing extensions, by Felix Maier.
• wgpu-load-test - A wgpu stress test, by Alexis Andre.
• Mik Bry

Libraries

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• Babylon.js - Open game and rendering engine.
• Dawn - Google implementation that powers WebGPU in Chromium, can be used as a standalone package.
• wgpu - Cross-platform Rust graphics API based on WebGPU, used by Firefox and native applications.
• webgpu-headers - C/C++ headers.
• RedGPU - JavaScript WebGPU library, by @redcamel.
• WebGPU .NET - Browser-focused .NET bindings for the Emscripten WebGPU API.
• RedCube - glTF viewer based on a WebGPU backend.
• hwoa-rang-gpu - Micro WebGPU rendering & compute library.
• wgsl_reflect - A WebGPU Shading Language parser and reflection library for JavaScript.
• WebGPU-C++ - A single-file zero-overhead C++ idiomatic wrapper, by @eliemichel.
• GEngine - A basic rendering engine based on WebGPU, by junwei.gu.
• Thimbleberry - Reusable WebGPU shaders and support functions.
• WebRTX - Experimental ray-tracing layer implemented with WebGPU compute shaders.
• Three.js - 3D library with WebGPURenderer and Three.js Shading Language (TSL) for shader authoring.
• React Native WebGPU - React Native implementation of WebGPU using Dawn.
• TypeGPU - Type-safe toolkit for GPU resources and shaders authored in TypeScript.
• sokol - Simple STB-style cross-platform libraries for C and C++.
• WebGpGpu.ts - A WebGPU framework to access compute shaders, browser or server-side, without the steep learning curve.
• Use.GPU - Reactive/declarative WebGPU runtime.
• spark.js - A real-time GPU texture compression library for WebGPU.
• PlayCanvas - Web-based game engine with WebGPU support.
• PixiJS - 2D rendering engine with a WebGPU renderer.
• zephyr3d - A TypeScript-based 3D rendering engine with WebGPU/WebGL support.
• ChartGPU - Interactive charting library using WebGPU for rendering.
• luma.gl - Graphics and compute toolkit with WebGPU and WebGL backends.
• webgpu-utils - Helpers for buffer layouts, textures, mipmaps, and bind groups.
• Emdawnwebgpu - Dawn-maintained WebGPU bindings for Emscripten applications.
• wgpu-native - Native C interface to the Rust wgpu implementation.
• Vello - Experimental Rust 2D vector renderer using wgpu and GPU compute.
• Deno - JavaScript and TypeScript runtime with WebGPU support through the --unstable-webgpu flag.
• WESL - Community WGSL extensions for import, @if, and more.
• vgpu - TypeScript WebGPU library with typed WGSL imports and a shared API for browsers, Node.js, and tests.
• RunMat - GPU-accelerated numerical computing runtime for MATLAB-syntax programs, with browser execution through WebAssembly and WebGPU.
• Vienna WebGPU Engine - Educational C++ game engine built on WebGPU, with rendering tutorials and native and browser backends.
• Points - Generative art library built with WebGPU.
• fisheye.js - WebGPU compute library for fisheye image and video correction using WebCodecs.

Tutorials

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• Get started with GPU Compute on the Web - Tutorial on how to use WebGPU for non-graphical applications, by François Beaufort.
• Build a compute rasterizer in WebGPU - How to build a complete rasterizer using compute shaders, by Omar Shehata.
• Learn wgpu - Tutorial and examples on wgpu, a Rust implementation of WebGPU, by @sotrh
• LearningWebGPU 教程 (Chinese) - Tutorials using WGSL; the older GLSL-to-SPIR-V branch is deprecated.
• From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Series - 0-to-gltf?tab=readme-ov-file) - A tutorial to create a glTF model viewer, by Will Usher.
• Your first WebGPU app - Google codelab introducing rendering and compute with a Game of Life simulation.
• Learn vgpu - Interactive introduction to the vgpu API with live WGSL editing.

Videos

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• Introducing WebGPU: Unlocking modern GPU access for JavaScript - By Google.
• A proper look at WebGPU for native games - By Madrigal
• WebGL to WebGPU (playlist) - By SketchpunkLabs
• WebGPU (playlist) - By Genka
• WebGPU Graphics Programming Step-by-Step (playlist) - By Practical Programming with Dr. Xu

Websites

API documentations

• API quick reference and documentation - WebGPU.rocks.
• MDN - WebGPU API reference.

Misc

• r/WebGPU - Reddit - WebGPU Subreddit.
• compute.toys - Compute shader playground (like shadertoy).
• Shadeup - Language/website that makes experimenting with WebGPU easier.
• Google Developers Site
• Tour of WGSL - A quick introduction to the WebGPU Shading Language.
• WebGPU Experts Blog - News and articles about WebGPU.

Official websites

• Official WebGPU Explainer
• GPUWeb - Official GitHub repository.
• WebGPU.org - Resource hub for browser support, learning materials, and developer tools.

WebGPU Specifications

• History
• Editor's Draft

WGSL (WebGPU Shading Language) Specifications

• Published specification
• Editor's Draft