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React Jam just started, making a game in 13 days with React

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React is not traditionally used for making games, but that's part of the fun and the challenge. React Jam is particularly relevant for React devs who wanna make a game, but don't wanna learn Unity, Unreal, or some other game engine.

This is the 3rd React Jam. We got a lot of requests to do a React Jam over the winter holidays so we've organized one. We chose to make it a bit longer (13 days instead of 10 days) to help account for being busy with family events etc.

>> React is not traditionally used for making games, but that's part of the fun and the challenge.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38437821 :

> MS Flight Simulator cockpits are built with MSFS Avionics Framework which is React-like and MIT licensed:

https://github.com/microsoft/msfs-avionics-mirror/tree/main/...

preactjs may or may not be faster: https://preactjs.com/

Million.js is faster than preact, and lists a number of references under Acknowledgements: https://github.com/aidenybai/million#acknowledgments

https://million.dev/docs :

> We use a novel approach to the virtual DOM called the block virtual DOM. You can read more on what the block virtual DOM is with Virtual DOM: Back in Block and how we make it happen in React with Behind the block().

React API reference > Components > Profiler: https://react.dev/reference/react/Profiler

From the React Developer Tools browser extension docs: https://react.dev/learn/react-developer-tools :

> Now, if you visit a website built with React, you will see the Components and Profiler panels.

The Redux DevTools extension also inspects apps written without React+Redux; Angular, Cycle, Ember, Fable, Freezer, Mobx, PureScript, Reductive, and Aurelia apps: https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-devtools/blob/main/extensio...

Cool, didn't know that MS Flight Simulator cockpits used a React-like framework. Thanks for sharing!

Np.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=35887168 re: ipyflow I learned about ReactiveX for Python (RxPY) https://rxpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ .

https://github.com/ipyflow/ipyflow :

> IPyflow is a next-generation Python kernel for Jupyter and other notebook interfaces that tracks dataflow relationships between symbols and cells during a given interactive session, thereby making it easier to reason about notebook state.

FWIU e.g. panda3d does not have a react or rxpy-like API, but probably does have a component tree model?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527552 :

>> It actually looks like pygame-web (pygbag) supports panda3d and harfang in WASM

> Harfang and panda3d do 3D with WebGL, but FWIU not yet agents in SSBO/VBO/GPUBuffer

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