WebGPU and WGSL (WebGPU Shading Language) are W3C standards for GPU acceleration on the Web. There are also implementations of WebGPU in other languages, for both WebAssembly and native applications.

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• ✅ Maintained by the WebGPU Working Group
• 🤝 Maintained by browser/implementation contributors or well-known community members
• 💬 Official community spaces
• 🌐 Unofficial resources

Implementation Status & Bug Reporting

• ✅ WebGPU Implementation Status - status of different browsers/OSes, and how to report bugs
• 🤝 For status of individual features, check on your device using WebGPU Report

Community Spaces

• 💬 Chat - “Web Graphics” Matrix Community: #webgraphics:matrix.org
  • The general WebGPU channel is #WebGPU:matrix.org
• 💬 Q&A and feature proposals - GitHub Discussions
• 💬 Mailing list - public-gpu@w3.org at the W3C

Samples & Demos

• ✅ WebGPU Samples - sample code and demos of various features and graphics/compute techniques
• 🤝 wgpu Examples (Rust on Wasm)
• 🌐 compute.toys
• 🌐 … and many more here

Tutorials

• 🤝 WebGPU Fundamentals - tutorials and articles on many WebGPU and graphics topics
• 🤝 Tour of WGSL - tutorials on WGSL (WebGPU Shading Language)
• 🤝 Get started with GPU Compute on the Web
• 🤝 Build a app with WebGPU - Cross-compiled for Wasm + native
• 🌐 Learn WebGPU (Elie Michel) - C++
• 🌐 Raw WebGPU (Alain Galvan)
• 🌐 All the cores, none of the canvas (Surma)

Articles

• 🤝 WebGPU Best Practices
• 🤝 Efficiently rendering glTF models
• 🤝 Articles on WebGPU on Chrome for Developers
• Modern graphics (not specifically WebGPU)
  • 🤝 Elements of Design of Explicit Graphics APIs

Specifications & References

• ✅ WebGPU API Specification
• ✅ WGSL Specification
• ✅ WebGPU Correspondence Reference - contributions wanted
• 🤝 WebGPU on MDN
• 🌐 webgpu.rocks WebGPU/WGSL Reference

Developer Tools

• 🤝 WebGPU Report - status on your device
• 🤝 WGSL Inspector
• 🤝 WebGPU Dev Extension
• 🤝 WebGPUReconstruct
• 🤝 WGSL Offset Computer
• Articles
  • 🤝 Profiling WebGPU with PIX (Windows)
  • 🤝 Profiling WebGPU with Xcode (Mac)

Browser News

• 🤝 Chrome for Developers What’s New in WebGPU series

Community Events

• Upcoming:
  • WebGPU Community Meetup (Paris, Nov 5, 2026) - Informal community gathering following the W3C Working Group meeting.
• Past meetups & presentations:
  • 2026-03 GDC
  • 2025-07 SIGGRAPH - video, slides
  • 2025-03 GDC
  • 2024-07 SIGGRAPH - video, slides
  • 2024-03 GDC
  • (just search online if you’re looking for a specific past meetup)

Community libraries for use with WebGPU

• Shaders
  • 🤝 WESL - extensions for WGSL
  • 🤝 Slang (experimental)
  • 🤝 wgsl_reflect WebGPU Shading Language Reflection Library
• Engines
  • 🤝 Three.js
  • 🤝 Babylon.js
  • 🤝 Unity
  • 🤝 PlayCanvas
  • 🤝 Toucan
  • 🌐 React Native WebGPU
• Machine Learning
  • 🌐 TensorFlow.js
  • 🌐 ONNX Runtime
  • 🌐 Apache TVM
• 🌐 … and many more here

Language bindings for WebGPU

• TypeScript
  • ✅ @webgpu/types
• C
  • 🤝 webgpu.h - standardized stable header for C and FFI
• C++
  • 🤝 Dawn and Emdawnwebgpu include C++ bindings
  • 🤝 WebGPU-cpp
• Rust - see below
• JavaScript (Node/Deno) - see below
• WebAssembly (C/C++/Rust) - see below

Libraries implementing WebGPU

• 🤝 wgpu - Rust, used in Firefox, Servo, and Deno
  • Available for: Rust, C (wgpu-native - contributions wanted)
  • Native + WebAssembly
• 🤝 Dawn - C++, used in Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium browsers
  • Available for: C, C++, Node
  • Native only
• 🤝 Emdawnwebgpu - bindings for Emscripten
  • WebAssembly only, via Emscripten

More resources from the community

• 🌐 Awesome WebGPU