Cesium VS react-three-fiber

Compare Cesium vs react-three-fiber and see what are their differences.

Cesium

An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas: (by CesiumGS)
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Cesium react-three-fiber
10 113
11,821 25,908
1.8% 2.3%
9.8 9.1
8 days ago 6 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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Cesium

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cesium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-27.

react-three-fiber

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-three-fiber. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-03.
  • 3JS Job Market
    1 project | /r/threejs | 5 Jun 2023
    this is perfect then. a large part of the threejs userbase is using https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber (roughly 1/4, and growing) and this is also where you find lots of job opportunities. fiber has a vast eco system, but if you can pair this with your knowledge of shaders you'll find a job tomorrow if you wanted.
  • Next topics for mastering frontend
    1 project | /r/Frontend | 28 May 2023
    there's 3d with threeJS you could play around with that and hooking it into react with react-three-fiber.
  • Was anyone able to make a 3D CAD tool in React?
    1 project | /r/reactjs | 25 May 2023
    Have you looked at this: https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber
  • CLI vs Expo
    1 project | /r/reactnative | 8 May 2023
    Only instance in recent memory where I was able to get something working with Expo but not the CLI was when trying to integrate react-three-fiber, but even that may be resolved now.
  • Getting started with 3D web development
    1 project | /r/threejs | 4 May 2023
    this will put you at a massive advantage: https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber it's a renderer, just like react-dom, it won't change what threejs is or how it functions.
  • Suggestions needed
    3 projects | /r/threejs | 3 Apr 2023
    there's a whole eco system around three in react and next. it starts with react-three-fiber, drei has tons of helpers, and then there's three-next for when you need 100% lighthouse, persisting canvas across routes etc.
  • Built a new splash page at the beginning of the year. Used the opportunity to experiment with react-three-fiber.
    3 projects | /r/webdev | 4 Mar 2023
    I picked the stack I did to expand upon my skill set. In particular, I wanted to brush up on react-three-fiber, react-spring & drei.
  • My own collection so far :)
    2 projects | /r/virtualreality | 1 Mar 2023
    I think the easiest for you would be to get into this through web development try this https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber coupled with this https://github.com/pmndrs/react-xr But don't expect super beautiful graphic from this, it's abstraction over three.js library which is abstraction over webgl standard which implements OpenGL ES 2.0 which is 7 years old graphics standard targeted to mobile devices with not much power. Or you can experiment with unity (unity XR) or unreal engine which are harder to learn but produce better graphics.
  • Why react?
    5 projects | /r/reactjs | 1 Mar 2023
    On the technical side, the ability to have pluggable renderers has been very useful for us. We never would have considered 3D without react-three-fiber. Building cli applications with react-ink is pretty cool.
  • 3D Product Card With ReactJS
    4 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2023
    Then, we need to install the dependencies that we will use in this project. We will use Three.js library, @react-three/fiber and @react-three/drei.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cesium and react-three-fiber you can also consider the following projects:

Leaflet - πŸƒ JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

drei - πŸ₯‰ useful helpers for react-three-fiber

mapbox.js - Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin

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

OpenLayers3 - OpenLayers

THREE.MeshLine - Mesh replacement for THREE.Line

terriajs - A library for building rich, web-based geospatial data platforms.

Next.js - The React Framework

maplibre-native - MapLibre Native - Interactive vector tile maps for iOS, Android and other platforms.

framer/motion - Open source, production-ready animation and gesture library for React

gmaps - the easiest way to use Google Maps

wasm-bindgen - Facilitating high-level interactions between Wasm modules and JavaScript