pmndrs/react-three-rapier

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React Three Rapier is a React library providing hooks and components for the Rapier physics engine within react-three-fiber scenes. It lets developers add rigid bodies, colliders, joints, and physics simulation to 3D web applications declaratively.

Use cases

• add physics to a react-three-fiber 3d scene
• make 3d objects fall and collide in the browser
• build a 3d web game with realistic physics
• simulate ragdolls or joints in react
• create interactive physics-based 3d animations
• add collision detection to three.js meshes

When to choose

• you are building 3D web experiences with react-three-fiber and need physics
• you want a declarative, React-idiomatic API over the Rapier engine
• you need performant WASM-based physics in the browser

When to avoid

• you are not using React or react-three-fiber
• you need physics outside the browser in a native engine
• you only need simple animations without real physics simulation

Facets

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game-engine simulation animation graphics web-development frontend simulation browser cross-platform physics-engine react-three-fiber rapier threejs 3d wasm-physics react-hooks game-development web-server nodejs

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