Textures and Lighting with React and Three.js

In my previous three posts, I have developed a simple WebGL application using react-three-fiber and three.js. In this post, I am adding texture loading and proper lighting to the application. For reference, here the links to the previous versions of the app: Version 1: Just being able to drag a shape on the screen Version … Continue reading Textures and Lighting with React and Three.js →

Create and Drag Shapes with Three.js, React and Cannon.js

Following up from my article published a few days ago, I have now extended and improved the simple WebGL application that I originally developed using Three.js and react-three-fiber. Version 1 of the application allowed dragging a simple shape around on the screen: App: https://react-three-fiber-draggable.surge.sh/ Source Code: https://github.com/mxro/threejs-test/tree/master/test1 Version 2 combines this basic premise with the … Continue reading Create and Drag Shapes with Three.js, React and Cannon.js →

Advantages of Using React Hooks

I always had the feeling that React is just a bit to complex, a bit to 'heavy' to be a truely elegant solution to the problem of building complex user interfaces in JavaScript. Two issues, for instance, are the general project setup, exemplified by the need to have create-react-app, and class-based components, with all their … Continue reading Advantages of Using React Hooks →