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A curation of WebAssembly (Wasm) resources, projects, and communities.

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# Awesome WebAssembly [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge-flat2.svg)](https://awesome.re)

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A curation of WebAssembly resources, projects, and communities. 

> [WebAssembly](https://webassembly.org/) (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](#resources)

  - [Basics](#basics)

  - [Articles](#articles)

  - [Books](#books)

  - [Videos](#videos)

- [Projects](#projects)

  - [Compilers](#compilers)

  - [Runtimes](#runtimes)

  - [Libraries](#libraries)

  - [Tools](#tools)

  - [Frameworks](#frameworks)

- [Communities](#communities)



## Resources



### Basics



- [WebAssembly MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly)

- [WebAssembly Specification](https://webassembly.github.io/spec/)



### Articles



- [What is WebAssembly?](https://medium.com/javascript-scene/what-is-webassembly-the-dawn-of-a-new-era-61256ec5a8f6) - Eric Elliott, 2015.

- [7 Things You Should Know About WebAssembly](https://auth0.com/blog/7-things-you-should-know-about-web-assembly/) - Sebastian Peyrott, 2015.

- [WebAssembly Demystified](https://floooh.github.io/2017/06/09/webassembly-demystified.html) - Andre Weissflog, 2017.

- [Why WebAssembly?](https://medium.com/dfinity/why-webassembly-f21967076e4) - Andreas Rossberg, 2018.

- [The world's easiest introduction to WebAssembly](https://medium.com/free-code-camp/webassembly-with-golang-is-fun-b243c0e34f02) - Martin Olsansky, 2019.

- [The Future of Programming: WebAssembly & Life After JavaScript](https://www.sitepoint.com/future-programming-webassembly-life-after-javascript/) - Eric Elliott, 2024.

- [The Web Assembles](https://blog.scottlogic.com/ceberhardt/assets/white-papers/the-web-assembles.pdf) - Chris Price and Colin Eberhardt, 2017.

- [An Empirical Study of Real-World WebAssembly Binaries](https://dlehmann.eu/publications/WasmBench-www2021.pdf) - Aaron Hilbig, Daniel Lehmann, and Michael Pradel, 2021.

- [Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc19-jangda.pdf) - Abhinav Jangda, Bobby Powers, Emery D. Berger, and Arjun Guha, 2019.

- [Provably-Safe Multilingual Software Sandboxing using WebAssembly](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec22-bosamiya.pdf) - Jay Bosamiya, Wen Shih Lim, and Bryan Parno, 2022.

- [Wasabi: A Framework for Dynamically Analyzing WebAssembly](https://software-lab.org/publications/asplos2019_Wasabi.pdf) - Daniel Lehmann and Michael Pradel, 2019.

- [Bringing the Web up to Speed with WebAssembly](https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/main/papers/pldi2017.pdf) - 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](https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/) - Open-source book describing how to use Rust and WebAssembly together.

- [Programming WebAssembly with Rust](https://pragprog.com/titles/khrust/programming-webassembly-with-rust/) - Kevin Hoffman, 2019.

- [The Art of WebAssembly](https://nostarch.com/art-webassembly) - Rick Battagline, 2021.



### Videos



- [WebAssembly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhAPPQqKCi8) - Nick Bray, 2015.

- [What is WebAssembly?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HktWin_LPf4) - Lin Clark, 2017.

- [Get Going with WebAssembly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTrx0BbUXI4) - Johan Brandhorst, 2018.

- [WebAssembly and the Death of JavaScript](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBYqen3B2gc) - Colin Eberhardt, 2018.



## Projects



### Compilers



- [Emscripten](https://emscripten.org/) - Compile C and C++ to WebAssembly.

- [AssemblyScript](https://www.assemblyscript.org/) - TypeScript-like language compiled to WebAssembly.

- [Binaryen](https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen) - Compiler infrastructure for WebAssembly.

- [TinyGo](https://tinygo.org/) - Go compiler for WebAssembly.



### Runtimes



- [Wasmtime](https://wasmtime.dev/) - Standalone WebAssembly runtime.

- [WasmEdge](https://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge) - High-performance WebAssembly runtime.

- [WAVM](https://github.com/WAVM/WAVM) - WebAssembly virtual machine.

- [Wasm3](https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3) - Small, fast WebAssembly interpreter.

- [Wasmer](https://wasmer.io/) - WebAssembly runtime for desktop, cloud, and edge.



### Libraries



- [wasm-bindgen](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen) - Interoperability between Rust and JavaScript.

- [wasmer-js](https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-js) - WebAssembly runtime for JavaScript.

- [wasm-pack](https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-pack) - Build, test, and publish Rust-generated Wasm.

- [Wabt](https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt) - WebAssembly binary tolkit.

- [WASI](https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI) - WebAssembly system interface.



### Tools



- [Wasm Explorer](https://mbebenita.github.io/WasmExplorer/) - Visualize and debug WebAssembly binaries.

- [wasm2c](https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/tree/main/wasm2c) - Convert WebAssembly binaries to C.



### Frameworks



- [Blazor](https://blazor.net/) - .NET web framework running on WebAssembly.

- [Yew](https://yew.rs/) - Rust framework for building web applications using WebAssembly.

- [Leptos](https://github.com/leptos-rs/leptos) - Full-stack Rust framework for WebAssembly web apps.



## Communities



- [WebAssembly GitHub Organization](https://github.com/WebAssembly)

- [W3C WebAssembly Group](https://www.w3.org/wasm/)

- [WebAssembly Subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/webassembly/)



## Contributing



Contributions are welcome. Please read the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/idematos/awesome-webassembly/blob/main/contributing.md) before submitting your changes.