threejs-starter-kit

My current worlflow for quick Three.js prototypes.

Usage

After cloning install all node dependencies

npm i

Then launch the main task to open the livereload server

npm start

You are good to go !

Deployment

npm run build

Then put the content of the dist folder on your server. You can also just run use now for a quick deployment.

I usually include debug tools only in development mode. This can be done by using the DEVELOPMENT environment variable that is set by wepack.

if (DEVELOPMENT) {
  const gui = require('guigui') // will not be included in production
}

Features

• ES6 with Babel and Webpack
• Glslify webpack loader
• Postprocessing with vanruesc/postprocessing
• My personnal GUI
• Extandable asset loader
• Environment variable to exclude debug stuff in production build
• Basic config for now deployment
• Simple setup with my ideal file structure

File Structure and coding style

I like to create "Objects" classes in src/objects that contain elements from my scene. They usually extend THREE.Object3D so that they can be added to a parent, have positions and rotations etc... I also sometime extend THREE.Mesh directly but it can be a bit restrictive since in that case you need to prepare all geometries and material in the constructor before the call to super() without being able to use this.

Also i like to avoid using the THREE global keyword and instead I import only the components that I need from three. This is pointless (for now) but it might be useful in the tree-shaking future / alternate reality.

import { Object3D, Mesh, MeshBasicMaterial } from 'three'