LittleJS vs Shaku

LittleJS

LittleJS is a HTML5 game engine with many features and no dependencies. 🚂 Choo-Choo! (by KilledByAPixel)

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Shaku

A simple yet effective web game development framework *that knows its place*! (by RonenNess)

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LittleJS		Shaku
	Project
24	Mentions	4
2,754	Stars	25
-	Growth	-
9.4	Activity	6.8
4 days ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

LittleJS

Posts with mentions or reviews of LittleJS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.

Web Game Engines and Libraries
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024
Undergrowth - A tale from O Monolith, The new album by Squid!
1 project | /r/Games | 11 Jun 2023
Undergrowth - A story from O Monolith - The new album by Squid
1 project | /r/playmygame | 11 Jun 2023

Made with my own open source game engine LittleJS!
[AskJS] any recommended frameworks for making 2d games in browser?
4 projects | /r/javascript | 10 Jun 2023
Most popular library to build games in javascript?
1 project | /r/gamedev | 28 Dec 2022

LittleJS
GitHub - KilledByAPixel/LittleJS: The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can!
1 project | /r/javascript | 22 Dec 2022
LittleJS - a super lightweight JavaScript game engine with a fast hybrid rendering system. It provides everything necessary to make amazing games, including rendering, physics, particles, sound effects, music, input handling, and debug tools
1 project | /r/javascript | 20 Dec 2022
LittleJS – The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
How to make a game under 10 MB and what engine to use?
5 projects | /r/gamedev | 2 Aug 2022

Checkout LittleJS, MelonJS and my main recommendation, Phaser.
Web developer here thinking about developing a game with HTML5, any thoughts?
12 projects | /r/gamedev | 31 Mar 2022

I myself am currently using LittleJS, and it's just amazing for me, as it sorts out the core engine & rendering logic, but I can easily reuse and plug in any sort of other libraries/old scripts from other games at need: https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/LittleJS

Shaku

Posts with mentions or reviews of Shaku. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-31.

Hi all, just published my Bullet Hell game on Itch.io (inspired by VS). Please tell me what you think :)
1 project | /r/IndieGaming | 5 Aug 2022

Made with a custom JS framework I made if anyone interested: https://github.com/RonenNess/Shaku
Web developer here thinking about developing a game with HTML5, any thoughts?
12 projects | /r/gamedev | 31 Mar 2022

Another great, more advanced option than littleJS, looks to be ShakuJS: https://github.com/RonenNess/Shaku/tree/main/lib
Shaku.js: web games framework for people who love to code (I'm the author)
1 project | /r/javascript | 19 Jan 2022
Shaku.js: web games framework that keeps itself low level (for people who love to code)
1 project | /r/gamedev | 15 Jan 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LittleJS and Shaku you can also consider the following projects:

matter-js - a 2D rigid body physics engine for the web ▲● ■

angular-rpg-game-engine - A 2D game engine for creating room-based sneak/action games with puzzle elements

colyseus - ⚔ Multiplayer Framework for Node.js

LittleJSexamples

BabylonJS - Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.

Excalibur - 🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️

Socket.io - Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)

melonJS - a fresh, modern & lightweight HTML5 game engine

twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]