LunchboxJS – Vue 3/Three.js custom renderer

Mostly to make the API declarative, similar to what you could do with OOP. If you have a 3D UI, a 3D UI framework might make sense, for example react has “suspense” for loading states, and you can imagine having 3D loading states, with placeholder models being rendered

We used React Three Fiber at my job 2-3 years ago (when it was "early") and it was already amazing then, we could do really cool stuff easily. We wrote our own wrappers to easily do <Cube /> and similar things and published it as OSS[1], but TBH documentation was scarce since it was an internal project and there were virtually no resources dedicated to publish it, just a couple of devs pushing for it. We even published one of the first bridges[2]. We didn't want to totally opt out of the React render loop so we had to do a lot of hacks and optimizations, but it was a great experience overall.

Nowadays React Three Fiber is very mature and you have the "drei" collection[3], which have all the things I mentioned and a lot more. Though now looking at the source and timing (we published a blog [4] with our solution and their commit few weeks later with almost the same code[5]) it seems they might've copied our solution as part of their package, would've loved a heads up or ack but well happy to make open source better.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@standard/view

[2] https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/13332#issuecomment-...

[3] https://github.com/pmndrs/drei

[4] https://standard.ai/blog/introducing-standard-view-and-react...

[5] https://github.com/pmndrs/drei/pull/137/files

Polygonjs [1] (disclaimer, I develop it) is for vanilla js, but also has components for vuejs [2], react [3] and react-three-fiber [4]. The goals are to provide a higher level api than threejs, and also to not be restricted to a single framework.

[1] https://github.com/polygonjs/polygonjs

[2] https://polygonjs.com/docs/integrations/vue

[3] https://polygonjs.com/docs/integrations/react

[4] https://polygonjs.com/docs/integrations/react_three_fiber

Yeah these declarative wrappers on top of threejs really help it become more approachable, especially since the skills you've learned with React, Vue, or Svelte translate so directly.

I've tried it, and I really really wanted to like it. . . But I can't recommend it for anything beyond simple demos.

If you need 3d work, it's far better to use a proper 3d engine like unity or unreal for a much nicer and productive overall workflow, and just export it as webgl.

gltfjsx is the easiest I have used: https://github.com/pmndrs/gltfjsx

r3f export from spline also seems pretty easy but I haven't tried it yet: https://twitter.com/0xca0a/status/1519751065222238211

Works as intended for me, Fedora36/Gnome/Firefox100.