diff --git a/src/gateway/backends/mod.rs b/src/gateway/backends/mod.rs
index 53123fe..fe6e325 100644
--- a/src/gateway/backends/mod.rs
+++ b/src/gateway/backends/mod.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,22 @@
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+#[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "client"))]
 pub mod tungstenite;
+#[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "client"))]
+pub use tungstenite::*;
+#[cfg(all(target_arch = "wasm32", feature = "client"))]
+pub mod wasm;
+#[cfg(all(target_arch = "wasm32", feature = "client"))]
+pub use wasm::*;
 
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+#[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "client"))]
 pub type Sink = tungstenite::TungsteniteSink;
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+#[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "client"))]
 pub type Stream = tungstenite::TungsteniteStream;
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+#[cfg(all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "client"))]
 pub type WebSocketBackend = tungstenite::TungsteniteBackend;
+
+#[cfg(all(target_arch = "wasm32", feature = "client"))]
+pub type Sink = wasm::WasmSink;
+#[cfg(all(target_arch = "wasm32", feature = "client"))]
+pub type Stream = wasm::WasmStream;
+#[cfg(all(target_arch = "wasm32", feature = "client"))]
+pub type WebSocketBackend = wasm::WasmBackend;
diff --git a/src/gateway/backends/wasm.rs b/src/gateway/backends/wasm.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..546a05d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gateway/backends/wasm.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+use futures_util::{
+    stream::{SplitSink, SplitStream},
+    StreamExt,
+};
+
+use ws_stream_wasm::*;
+
+use crate::errors::GatewayError;
+use crate::gateway::GatewayMessage;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct WasmBackend;
+
+// These could be made into inherent associated types when that's stabilized
+pub type WasmSink = SplitSink<WebSocketStream<MaybeTlsStream<TcpStream>>, tungstenite::Message>;
+pub type WasmStream = SplitStream<WebSocketStream<MaybeTlsStream<TcpStream>>>;
+
+impl WasmBackend {
+    pub async fn connect(
+        websocket_url: &str,
+    ) -> Result<(WasmSink, WasmStream), crate::errors::GatewayError> {
+        let (websocket_stream, _) = match WsMeta::connect();
+        {
+            Ok(websocket_stream) => websocket_stream,
+            Err(e) => {
+                return Err(GatewayError::CannotConnect {
+                    error: e.to_string(),
+                })
+            }
+        };
+
+        Ok(websocket_stream.split())
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<GatewayMessage> for WsMessage {
+    fn from(message: GatewayMessage) -> Self {
+        Self::Text(message.0)
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<WsMessage> for GatewayMessage {
+    fn from(value: WsMessage) -> Self {
+        Self(value.to_string())
+    }
+}