Babylonjs Game Starter

A basic starting point for your Babylonjs Game Project, built on Webpack, Express.js.

This project assumes you will use

• TypeScript for the game logic
• JavaScript for Express.js server code.

Getting Started

Initiate your project by running below command in the directory of your choice:
(Replace 'my-app' with your choice of project name)

npx babylonjs-game-starter my-app

• This will:
  • download all necessary files and folders,
  • generate package.json
  • initialize git

Then, make sure to install dependencies:

npm install

Then, compile typescipt files by running:

npx tsc

Or you can install TypeScript globally to use the global tsc command.

npm i -g typescript

tsc

To start the development server, run:

npm start

• This will run two different scripts:
  • webpack serve --config webpack.dev.js
  • nodemon server/server.js
• Development server has been designed to run two separate servers:
  • Webpack Dev Server for frontend (at PORT 3030)
  • Express Server for backend APIs (at PORT 8080)
• Other scripts are also included for starting the server (e.g. npm run start:dev2, which uses webpack-dev-middleware), but hot reload does not work with these.
• Using npm start is recommended.
• To adjust ports and other settings/logic, please configure accordingly.

To build your project for production, run:

npm run build

Notes of Configuration

If you decide to change certain property names and values in package.json (e.g. main, html, fallback, favicon, etc.) or change the name/location of the main project file (which is set to game/index.ts), please make sure to update the relevant configurations in webpack accordingly.

Requirements:

(as of 2021.08.18)

• LTS versions of node & npm
  • node ~v.14.17.5
  • npm ~v.6.14.14
  • Other versions of node & npm have not yet been tested other than v.15.4.0, which is known to fail.
  • Using LTS version is recommended.

Current Known Issues

(as of 2021.08.18):

• Install fails on node v.15.4.0
  • Other variations of v15 have not been tested

Issues

If you find any new bugs/errors, please file issues at: https://github.com/pdl39/babylonjs-game-starter/issues

Thanks!

Happy Coding :)