Using Three.js and React with TypeScript
Explore how to integrate Three.js with React and TypeScript by creating a React application and initializing a Three.js scene within React components. Learn to use React hooks like useCallback to manage scene setup efficiently and understand best practices for linking Three.js with React apps for smooth 3D rendering.
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Let’s go a step further and see how we can integrate Three.js with React.
There are different ways of creating a React application from scratch (Vite, for instance, also supports this), but the most common way is to use the yarn create react-app lts-tf --template TypeScript command from the command-line. Just like with Vite, this will create a new project. For this example, we’ve created this project in the lts-tf directory. Once created, we have to add the Three.js libraries just like we did for Vite:
This should set up a simple react TypeScript application, add the correct Three.js libraries, and install all the other required modules. The next step is to quickly check if all this works. Run ...