three-es6-plugin

A webpack plugin for es6-exporting scripts under three/examples/js/.

Good parts: this plugin

• provides ES6 module interface by transparently re-using original mrdoob/three.js,
• allows complete configuration of scripts to export,
• is orthogonal to mrdoob/three.js (hence, always "up-to-date").

We have created this plugin as a webpack-based solution workaround to: Transform examples/js to support modules.

How it works? The plugin dynamically transforms and exports mrdoob/three.js scripts as ES6 module. This generic approach was inspired by marcofugaro/three-addons, which does the same sort of stuff (but in a hardcoded way).

Install

$ npm install three three-es6-plugin

Upon invocation, the plugin references mrdoob/three.js source code. So make sure to install the original package three as well.

Usage

With this plugin, we can flexibly specify which classes (in mrdoob/three.js) to ES6-export. Here, we show a sample usage exporting OrbitControls, OBJLoader, MTLLoader, and DDSLoader.

1) Include the plugin in webpack.config.js as follows. So far, the last workaround line is necessary ;( (cf. webpack/watchpack/issues/25).

const webpack = require('webpack');
const ThreeEs6Plugin = require('three-es6-plugin/dist');

plugins.push(new ThreeEs6Plugin([
    'three/examples/js/controls/OrbitControls.js',  // <-- customize as you like
    'three/examples/js/loaders/OBJLoader.js',       // <--
    'three/examples/js/loaders/MTLLoader.js',       // <--
    'three/examples/js/loaders/DDSLoader.js',       // <--
]));

// workaround for infinite watch-compile loop...
plugins.push(new webpack.WatchIgnorePlugin([ /three-es6-plugin\/es6\/.*\.js$/, ]));

2) In ES6 code, we can now access the exported classes via three-es6-plugin/es6/.

import * as THREE from 'three';
import OrbitControls from 'three-es6-plugin/es6/OrbitControls';
import OBJLoader from 'three-es6-plugin/es6/OBJLoader';
import MTLLoader from 'three-es6-plugin/es6/MTLLoader';
import DDSLoader from 'three-es6-plugin/es6/DDSLoader';

const controls = new OrbitControls(...);
const objl = new OBJLoader();
const mtll = new MTLLoader();
const ddsl = new DDSLoader();

// ...

Demo

A standalone demo is here: three-es6-plugin-demo