Framework for developing 3D web apps

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$ npm install --save whs

Showcases

You can find lots of examples at showcases.

Why?

• 🤔 Because making of even a basic Three.js application requires at least ~20 lines of code (see this tutorial)

  • Three.js: you will need to setup: scene, renderer, camera, make an animate() function before making the actual app.

  • Whitestorm.js: There are modules that helps you easily setup them:

    const app = new WHS.App([
      new WHS.ElementModule(), // attach to DOM
      new WHS.SceneModule(), // creates THREE.Scene instance
      new WHS.CameraModule(), // creates PerspectiveCamera instance
      new WHS.RenderingModule() // creates WebGLRenderer instance
    ]);
     
    app.start(); // run animation

    See more about modules

• 💣 Adding physics is hard.

  • Three.js: To make your app run with physics you need to make a second world with same 3d objects and apply their transform (position & rotation) to your rendered scene objects (THREE.Scene for example) in every frame.

  • Whitestorm.js: Can be done with modules in a few lines:

    const app = new WHS.App([
      // Other modules...
      new PHYSICS.WorldModule()
    ]);
     
    const sphere = new WHS.Sphere({
      geometry: {
        radius: 3
      },
     
      modules: [
        new PHYSICS.SphereModule({
          mass: 10
        })
      ],
     
      material: new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({color: 0xff0000}) // red material
    });
     
    app.start(); // run animation

    Use physics-module-ammonext as your physics module.

    Try with physics on Codepen:

    

• 🔌 Components & plugins

  • Three.js: You can create meshes with geometry and material.

  • Whitestorm.js: You can create components with advanced custom functionality.

    export class BasicComponent extends WHS.MeshComponent {
      build() {
        return new THREE.Mesh(
          new THREE.IcosahedronGeometry(3, 5),
          new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({color: 0xffffff})
        )
      }
     
      randomize() { // Additional function
        this.position.set(Math.random() * 10, Math.random() * 10, Math.random() * 10);
      }
    }

  • See Component system in interactive 3D of web article for more info.

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Features

• 💎 Simple in usage
• 🚀 Speeds up 3D scene prototyping
• 🔌 Component based scene graph
• 💣 Simple integration of any high performance physics even with Worker (Multithreading)
• 💫 Automatization of rendering
• 🆕 ES2015+ based
• 🔷 Extension system (modules)
• 📦 Webpack friendly
• ✔️ Integrated Three.js rendering engine
• 💞 Work with Whitestorm.js and Three.js at the same time

WEBPACK

Use whitestorm-app-boilerplate

Documentation

Documentation for beta is currently in progress. Contact developers in discord chat

Basic application

Try on Codepen:

const app = new WHS.App([
  new WHS.ElementModule(), // attach to DOM
  new WHS.SceneModule(), // creates THREE.Scene instance
  new WHS.CameraModule({
    position: new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, -10)
  }), // creates PerspectiveCamera instance
  new WHS.RenderingModule(), // creates WebGLRenderer instance
  new WHS.OrbitControlsModule() // orbit controls
]);
 
const sphere = new WHS.Sphere({ // Create sphere comonent.
  geometry: {
    radius: 3
  },
 
  material: new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
    color: 0xffffff, // White color.
  }),
 
  position: new THREE.Vector3(0, 1, 0) // x: 0, y: 1, z: 0
});
 
sphere.addTo(app);
console.log(sphere.native); // Logs THREE.Mesh of this component
 
app.start(); // run animation

React integration

You can easily integrate Whitestorm.js with React using react-whs tool!

$ npm install react react-whs --save

Try with React on Codepen:

Example:

 
import React, {Component} from 'react';
import {App, Sphere} from 'react-whs';
 
export class Application extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <App modules={[
        new WHS.SceneModule(),
        new WHS.CameraModule({
          position: {
            z: 20
          }
        }),
        new WHS.RenderingModule(),
        new WHS.OrbitControlsModule()
      ]}>
        <Sphere
          geometry={[3, 32, 32]}
          material={new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({color: 0xffffff})}
          key="1"
        />
      </App>
    )
  }
}

Modules

Devtools

Name	Status	Description
whs-module-statsjs		WhitestormJS module for JavaScript Performance Monitor ⚡⌛
whs-module-dat.gui		User Interface for runtime editing properties 🔑🛠🔩

Physics

Name	Status	Description
physics-module-ammonext		Physics module based on Ammo.js

Audio

Integrations

Name	Status	Description
react-whs		Integration with ReactJS

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