drei VS react-three-fiber

In React, there are different libraries for rendering 3D. In this article, we will focus on how to use the Three.js Library, React Three Fiber library, and the React Three Drei library for creating 3D objects.

I have been using react-three-fiber and react-three-drei - the react version of this project. The examples are over whelming and wonderful

https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/getting-started/examp...

One of my favorites is the image gallery. I modified this so that clicking on an image take you into another room (gallery).

https://github.com/pmndrs/drei is a collection of examples and helpers.

Most impressive to me is the one using a GLTF model, video textures on text, reflections and more. A standalone version is

https://bfplr.csb.app/

But even more impressive is the sandbox showing the not-very-many-lines-of-code at

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/ground-reflections-and-vide...

A lot to putting a layer on top of threejs and I have run a fair number of head scratchers. But still the potential is huge. Using threejs has completely changed the way I look at website development. So if you are a svelte person I would definitely look into this.

the shader is here if you want it in vanilla https://github.com/pmndrs/drei/blob/master/src/core/Outlines.tsx though keep in mind it needs some additional work to support skeletons and instances, that's the code in the layout effect.

the eco system gives you so much freedom, especially when it comes to properly align, display your models, and to make them look nice. there are dozens of components for staging, lighting, soft shadows, you would miss out on all of that https://github.com/pmndrs/drei

there are more pain points than can be enumerated. i think you should take a look here https://github.com/pmndrs/drei and pmndrs in general. also the eco system it has covered so far.

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.

Definitely ThreeJS and specifically React Three Fiber. React Three Fiber is an amazing wrapper around three that greatly reduces boilerplate. And because of how modular react is, the community has grown massively. With lots of helper components in the Drei library, and amazing examples in the author's Twitter. The Codesandbox is also a goldmine of example. And one of the best-produced courses by Bruno Simon to help you get started. He is the creator of this famous portfolio site.

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.

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.

there's 3d with threeJS you could play around with that and hooking it into react with react-three-fiber.

Have you looked at this: https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.