explainers VS PixiJS

There are some attempts at introducing a tag to the HTML spec to natively render 3d models but the responses from the developer community are mixed. People want flexibility which is why exposing lower level APIs that people then can write wrappers for is often the better solution.

Historically perhaps! I'm not sure how so.

These days, the only entity I'm aware of trying to help the web forward with 3D that I have seen is a company I criticize frequently for holding the web back, Apple. They have been working to add a element[1].

Also happy to see Apple add BroadcastChannel and File System Access in Safari tech preview 131.

I'm still uncomfortable/alarmed having a general purpose device that's incapable of running all but a single possible web browser engine, and it's frustrating that incredibly empowering rich capabilities like Web MIDI are simply discarded (on valid security grounds, but still a vital capability I think we need to figure out how to allow). But Model or something like it is good solid declearative web innvoation (clawing back what's been javascripts). Templates were good, solid, declarative web innovation (clawing back what's been javascript's). And a lot of nuts and bolts to eventually finally seem to make it into Safari. I think I might be able to go to DEFCON 3 some day on my Safari feels.

[1] https://github.com/WebKit/explainers/tree/main/model https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353997 (2 months ago, 232 comments)

I believe this is more or less the same with the element that WebKit (Apple/Safari) is proposing. https://github.com/WebKit/explainers/tree/main/model

Apple proposes adding "model" element to HTML that displays 3D content\ (47 comments)

If you're into video game dev, then PixiJS is something you need to know about. It's a HTML5 game engine that provides a lightweight 2D library across all devices. This latest update has a new package structure, custom builds, graphics API overhaul, and lots more. You can read about all these changes in the PixiJS Migration Guide. Also big congrats to PixiJS for being part of the open source community for ten years now! 😮.

6. Pixi.js

https://pixijs.com/ and https://gsap.com/. All of the source code for my posts can be found at https://github.com/samwho/visualisations :)

For full web games (yeah, I come from the web, so I try to make my family proud), I will recommend PixiJS. It has great support for TypeScript and works very well with Vite. It's lighter than other game engines, so it's better for web games. But you will need to do a lot of things by yourself.

PixiJS (MIT/TypeScript) https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs

That approach works well for what I was trying to archive but I am planning on adding more functionality into the website. Hence in this article, let me rebuild the project using Pixi.js and it’s React binding, React Pixi.

https://openarena.live/

There's also a bunch of Javascript game engines: https://github.com/collections/javascript-game-engines

Of those, BabylonJS seems pretty powerful for 3D: https://www.babylonjs.com/games/

Or PixiJS for 2D: https://pixijs.com/

https://pixijs.com/ is more of a 2D rendering framework, but powerful and very fast