Technical Requirements
Explore the technical setup required for Three.js development, including recommended text editors like Visual Studio Code and browsers such as Firefox and Chrome. Understand how these tools support coding, debugging, and rendering 3D WebGL scenes.
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Three.js is a JavaScript library, so you need to create Three.js WebGL applications in a text editor and one of the supported browsers to render the results.
Recommended text editors
We would like to recommend the following text editors, which we used extensively for various projects:
Visual Studio Code: This free editor from Microsoft runs on all major platforms and provides great syntax highlighting and smart completion based on types, function definitions, and imported libraries. It provides a very clean interface and is great for working on JavaScript projects. It can be downloaded from here. If you don’t want to download this editor, you can also just navigate to this link, which will launch an editor ...