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I wrote a book about WebAssembly" is a practical introduction to WebAssembly designed for web developers looking to learn the technology. The book covers how to use WebAssembly in web applications with a focus on… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I wrote a book about WebAssembly launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   WebAssembly▲86

   New binary format for compiling applications for the web

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   I Wrote a Book on Java▲586

   https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming-in-j... This book is a distillation of everything I’ve learned about what effective development looks like in Java (so far!). It's about how to organize programs around data "as plain data" and the surprisingly benefits that emerge when we do. Programs that are built around the data they manage tend to be simpler, smaller, and significantly easier understand. Java has changed radically over the last several years. It has picked up all kinds of new language features which support data oriented programming (records,…

   2024 · its alternatives →

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   I wrote a WebAssembly Interpreter and Toolkit in C▲105

   Web49: WebAssembly Interpeter. Contribute to FastVM/Web49 development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Book about writing web apps in Go without a framework▲158

   Learn how to write webapps without a framework in Go. - thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Free e-book about WebGPU Programming▲471

   I am excited to announce the launch of my e-book on Graphics/WebGPU programming! This project has consumed much of my spare time, during which I developed various tools to facilitate the publishing process, including a code playground and a static site generator that can reference sample codes. However, I'm feeling burnt out and ready to call it finished, even though it may not feel completely done. Avoiding another abandoned side project has been my primary motivation in reaching this point.

   2024 · shi-yan.github.io · its alternatives →

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   An Easy Programming Language – Built with WebAssembly▲144

   easyprog.online ist Ihre erste und beste Informationsquelle über easyprog. Hier finden Sie auch weitere interessante Links. Wir hoffen, dass Sie bei Ihrer Suche erfolgreich sind!

   2019 · easyprog.online · its alternatives →

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   A WebAssembly game demo▲251

   2017 · funkykarts.rocks · its alternatives →

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   Getting Real▲234

   The smarter way to build web apps. A free book by 37signals.

   2015 · basecamp.com · its alternatives →

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   WebAssembly from the Ground Up – learn WASM by building a compiler▲7

   Hi HN! We (pdubroy & marianoguerra) just launched an online book called WebAssembly from the Ground Up. It's an online book to learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript. This is the book we wish we'd had 3 years ago. Unlike many WebAssembly resources that focus on use cases and tooling, we wanted a deep dive into how Wasm actually works. We focus on the core of WebAssembly: the module format and the instruction set. We think the low-level details — the "virtual ISA" — are the most interesting part, and we had the crazy idea that writing a compiler is the best way to learn it.…

   2025 · wasmgroundup.com · its alternatives →

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    How I Learned to Code▲65

    Lessons From Teaching Myself Web Development

    2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    I made a book with a hundred UI/UX tips▲198

    Hello. This year I dived into UI/UX area and at the same time I work as a web developer. I sincerely love making good UI. But at my full time job it's not always possible due to different reasons =\ So I've been posting random UI/UX staff on Twitter, then I made a free book that had 50 tips (posted it here as well). I decided to finish this year by collecting everything I learned and here it is: https://akcium.gumroad.com/l/ui-ux-tips. This time it's a paid one. But, you can check ~20 pages of it, just go to…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    I published a book to save you from my software architecture mistakes▲100

    Hey HN, I just wanted to share that after five months of intense work and countless caffeine-fueled writing sessions, "Master Software Architecture: A Pragmatic Guide" is now available. Writing this book was a crazy time. I entirely focused on it, and it took exactly 753 hours of writing, editing, and image editing & resizing(!) until the premiere. Yes, the last one (images) was a killer. If you ever think about writing a book, reserve a lot of time for it unless someone else does it for you. As a result, I am handing you the nearly 400-page book. It is a guide that will help you connect all…

    2024 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello Web Design▲234

    A book for programmers who want to learn design

    2018 · hellowebbooks.com · its alternatives →

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    Zero-Knowledge Proofs in WebAssembly▲81

    2019 · zkwasm.kobi.one · its alternatives →

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    I wrote a book on web application deployment▲326

    Learn the core transferable skills of setting up Linux virtual servers and Docker containers. Provision web servers, application servers, workers, and databases.

    2021 · deploymentfromscratch.com · its alternatives →

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    TinyWasm – A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust▲172

    Show HN: TinyWasm - A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust Hi HN! I'm excited to share TinyWasm (https://github.com/explodingcamera/tinywasm), a WebAssembly Interpreter I developed for my final university project. The main goal of this project was to deepen my understanding of WebAssembly and interpreter design. TinyWasm successfully passes all the official WebAssembly 1.0 tests and also includes features from future proposals such as like bulk memory operations. Initially more of a research project, TinyWasm focuses on simplicity and portability. It has minimal…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I wrote a book about using Lambda with Go▲103

    Hi HN! During the last few years, I worked on a few applications built with Go, running on AWS Lambda. As I got to know the platform better, I started to find Go & Lambda to be a really productive combination. The applications were fast, and they ended up being much cheaper to run than what my team & I had built before. It’s probably not the best platform for _every_ application, but I was surprised at how much of our workload worked well on it. As we brought new engineers on to our team and helped them get up to speed with the stack, I found that we were covering a lot of the same topics…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Firefox in WebAssembly▲273

    This is the entire Firefox browser rendering to a element. Gecko, all UI components, and the Spidermonkey JS engine are all compiled and running in WebAssembly. Here are a few things you might find interesting: - This is fully end to end encrypted! We use the WISP protocol for TCP-over-websockets. - There is a novel WASM->JS JIT for experimental site speedup - This port cost over 25k in opus/fable tokens for debugging and JIT research This was just a fun experiment to push the boundaries of WebAssembly. For a more usable "browser in browser" experience, we also built…

    Jul 2026 · developer.puter.com · its alternatives →

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    Wrote a tiny WebAssembly (wat2wasm) compiler in Go▲75

    As a personal project I wrote a really tiny Wat 2 Wasm compiler in Go. Mainly for demonstrative and educational purposes. It was tough: I didn't know anything about WebAssembly internals and I'm a newbie with Go... so I tried to document it as much as I could for anyone that would like to approach the quest in the future! It misses a lot of features (that will be gradually implemented). Any feedback is welcomed!! Demo: https://luna-demo.vercel.app

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I wrote a book about Debugging CSS▲137

    An ebook with lots of tips and techniques on how to debug CSS the right way with easy and studied methods.

    2020 · debuggingcss.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm writing a leanpub book about Common Lisp web programming▲107

    2013 · lispwebtales.ppenev.com · its alternatives →

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    Managing Web Projects▲61

    Learn to manage web projects with ease.

    2015 · fivesimplesteps.com · its alternatives →

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    I wrote a book teaching web app development for non-programmers▲16

    Hey HN, I wrote a book teaching beginner web app development using Django, launching on May 4th (successfully Kickstarted last year.) Website: http://hellowebapp.com Highlights: - Aimed at people who have previous HTML/building websites experience. - Template-first development: see the web app as a website first, before setting up databases and models. - Generic “collection of things” tutorial. Readers are encouraged to create something using this rubric that means something to them (a blog, a directory of people, etc.) Adding creativity will make the material stick better. -…

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Web App Success▲73

    Creating web apps? This is for you.

    2015 · fivesimplesteps.com · its alternatives →

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