Dive Into WebGPU—Part 1 (Tutorial)
March 11, 2025
WebGPU is a modern graphics API designed to provide high-performance graphics and computation capabilities across different platforms, including web browsers, desktops, and mobile devices. It is intended to be a successor to the WebGL API, offering more advanced features, better performance, and greater flexibility for developers. It offers several advantages over the WebGL API: Enforces the use of asynchronous calls for various operations, reducing bottlenecks on the main thread. Introduces compute shaders (i.e., the ability to run computations on the GPU). Allows rendering to multiple HTML canvas elements using only one WebGPU device.
Recently we mentioned Your first WebGPU app, a tutorial to learn WebGPU programming using JavaScript (implementing Conway’s game of life).
If that took your fancy, here’s a more in-depth WebGPU tutorial to get stuck into.
