api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: toon
dataset:
  id: 2928
  slug: web-api-standards
  title: Web API Standards Reference
  description: "Modern web API standards: Fetch API, WebSockets, WebRTC, Web Workers, Service Workers, and WebAssembly with specs and use cases."
  summary: "Web platform API standards with the specification that defines each and a short description: Fetch, WebSockets, WebRTC, Web Workers, Service Workers and WebAssembly, extended with WebAuthn, WebTransport, Server-Sent Events, Streams, IndexedDB, Web Components, WebGPU and the Push API."
  use_when[2]: You need to know which standard defines a web capability and who maintains it.,You are comparing real-time communication options.
  caveats[2]: Specifications and implementations evolve independently; a standard may be only partly implemented.,"Maintainers differ: WHATWG, W3C and the IETF each own different parts of the platform."
  related[4]: browser-web-apis-reference,http-protocol-evolution,http-cors-guide,authentication-factors
  entry_count: 14
  fields[3]{section,field,type,example}:
    standards,name,string,Fetch API
    standards,spec,string,WHATWG
    standards,description,string,"Modern interface for network requests, replacin…"
  category: Web Technologies
  category_slug: web-technologies
  tags: "web,api,standards,reference"
  view_count: 47
  created_at: 1777673262
  updated_at: 1777673262
data:
  standards[14]{name,spec,description}:
    Fetch API,WHATWG,"Modern interface for network requests, replacing XMLHttpRequest"
    WebSockets,RFC 6455,Full-duplex communication over single TCP connection
    WebRTC,W3C / IETF,"Real-time peer-to-peer audio, video, and data communication"
    Web Workers,WHATWG,Background JavaScript execution in separate threads
    Service Workers,W3C,"Proxy scripts for caching, push notifications, offline support"
    WebAssembly,W3C,Binary instruction format for stack-based virtual machine
    WebAuthn,W3C,Public-key credential API for passkeys and phishing-resistant authentication
    WebTransport,W3C and IETF,Low-latency bidirectional streams and datagrams over HTTP/3
    Server-Sent Events,WHATWG HTML,One-way server-to-client event stream over HTTP
    Streams API,WHATWG,"Process data incrementally as readable, writable and transform streams"
    IndexedDB,W3C,Transactional client-side database for structured data and blobs
    Web Components,WHATWG and W3C,"Custom elements, shadow DOM and templates for reusable encapsulated components"
    WebGPU,W3C,Modern API for GPU graphics and general-purpose computation in the browser
    Push API,W3C,Lets a service worker receive messages from a server even when the page is closed