Geared toward novices: Because the API caters to novices, many advanced features are hidden.However, Three.js’ API can be built upon to create a game engine an example of such is the Rogue engine Not a game engine: Although Three.js possess the basic functionalities for creating games, it is not a game engine like Pla圜anvas and Unity that provides features beyond interactivity and rendering.No rendering pipeline: This makes a lot of modern rendering techniques impossible/infeasible to implement with Three.js.PBR rendering: Three.js has built-in physically based rendering (PBR), which makes rendering graphics more accurate.

Great performance: Three.js has a performance advantage over other libraries I have used.

Good documentation: Robust documentation is usually a great indicator of a strong library, and Three.js has excellent docs.

It has plenty of users and a sizable community of developers working with and creating various third-party tools and extensions for the library

Large community: Three.js has 87.1k stars and 33.4k forks on GitHub.

Below are a few example projects that show what’s possible with Three.js:

Plenty of examples: Due to its popularity, there are countless examples to help you get started.

Easy to learn: The most important advantage of Three.js - aside from its ability to perform complex rendering very well - is that it’s very easy to get started with.

This makes the library perfectly suitable for making 3D games on the web. It’s also a great tool for creating 3D games for web browsers.īecause Three.js is based on JavaScript, it’s relatively easy to add any interactivity between 3D objects and user interfaces, such as keyboard and mouse. Three.js is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries for creating and animating 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL. This guide will explore the top six JS/HTML5 game engines, ranked by the number of GitHub stars, and walk you through how to use them. But why reinvent the wheel when there are so many widely adopted game engines to choose from? You could start your web game development journey with pure JavaScript, which is probably the best way to learn if you’re a beginner. The truth is, since the introduction of the JavaScript WebGL API, modern browsers have intuitive capabilities that enable them to render more complex and sophisticated 2D and 3D graphics without relying on third-party plugins. I know what you’re thinking: why on Earth would you use JavaScript to develop games? I thought the same thing when I discovered that you could use JavaScript and HTML5 to develop 3D games. Editor’s note: This article was last updated on 21 November 2022 to update information and add visual examples for the JavaScript and HTML game engines.

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