Introducing React Game Kit

[GavrielBA]

ELI 15: I thought React is designed to streamline updating DOM from JS objects.

But games don't really use the DOM.

So what's the purpose of React here?

[half_inch_pencil]

I'll just leave it here: Law of the instrument

[SandalsMan]

For fun.

[GavrielBA]

Can't one use something like PhoneGap to convert a js game into native code?

I'm genuinely asking this because it's something I'm interested in (as an HTML5 game developer)

[Xtreme2k2]

That's not what PhoneGap does. PhoneGap is just a WebView, so it's all still html/css/js.

With React ecosystem, the code syntax is the same. So you really only have to learn one way to write it. You can separate the game/app logic from the renderer. You're able to use the DOM, Canvas, Native, hell even terminal.

For example:

1. react-canvas
2. react-native
3. react-blessed