WorkerNavigator: gpu property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Note: This feature is only available in Web Workers.

The gpu read-only property of the WorkerNavigator interface returns the GPU object for the current worker context, which is the entry point for the WebGPU API.

Value

A GPU object.

Examples

// Can be run inside a web worker async function init() { if (!navigator.gpu) { throw Error("WebGPU not supported."); } const adapter = await navigator.gpu.requestAdapter(); if (!adapter) { throw Error("Couldn't request WebGPU adapter."); } const device = await adapter.requestDevice(); // … }