Three Powerful Tools in my Web Development Swiss Army Knife
These tools are not ones I use everyday but they have got me out some really sticky situations. I hope you find them useful too.
Curve Modifiers in Three.js
I recently made a relaxing koi garden demo, where koi fish swim around a VR environment. The two most notable parts of the scene are the 3D positioned audio which I wrote about previously and the 100s of fish which appear to organically swim around the trees.
Audio on the Web, for Games and VR!
Audio is a fundamental way of adding important theming and immersion to games and virtual reality experiences on the Web. It’s not too hard to add but can do wonders for giving the user a wonderful experience. Resources like Freesound make it easier to find Creative Commons sound effects and music so there is no excuse to leave your experience silent.
HTML and Templates & JavaScript Template Literals
HTML in the Web is often made of reusable components, composed by templates, making it convenient to edit the different parts that make up a website. There are many templating languages used in the web such as handlebars, Pug, Vue and JSX; these are primarily used for composing HTML. Modern JavaScript has templating syntax built in which can use for all kinds of purposes including composing HTML.
Redeeming Push Notifications
You know that thing where you go to a web site then before you can do anything you have to acknowledge the push notification request. Do you hate that? Yeah, me too.