Summary of web technologies for games

Hosting

• CDN hosting
• GZip compression
• Large-Allocation header
• CORS
• Web security

Network

• Fetch and XHR
• Web sockets
• WebRTC
• HTTP

Display

• CSS
• Canvas and WebGL
• WebVR
• Fullscreen API
• <video>

Audio

• Web Audio API
• <audio>

Controls

• Gamepad API
• Pointer Lock
• Touch events
• Keyboard
• Mouse

Web storage

• IndexedDB
• Service workers
• Web storage
• Blob

Performance

• JavaScript, asm.js, WebAssembly
• SIMD
• Web workers
• SharedArrayBuffer

Devtools

• Debugger
• Memory tool
• about:memory
• Gecko profiler add-on

Compile to Web

• Emscripten (C/C++ to HTML/JS/WebAssembly)
• 3D engine exporters: Unity | Unreal