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Using Three.js with TypeScript

Explore how to create a TypeScript project using Vite and integrate Three.js libraries to build 3D scenes. Learn to initialize and run a Three.js application with TypeScript for enhanced coding and development in a web environment.

Creating Vite app with TypeScript

TypeScript provides a typed language that transpiles to JavaScript. This means that we can use it to create our site, and it’ll run just like normal JavaScript in the browser. There are many different ways of setting up a TypeScript project, but the easiest one is provided by Vite. Vite provides an integrated build environment and can be seen a bit as an alternative to webpack.

The first thing we need to do is create a new Vite project. We can do these steps ourselves, or we can look in the three-ts folder and just run yarn install ...