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gl-react is stable. We are finally releasing gl-react v3 in latest tag!!

  • gl-react-dom implementation is pretty robust now, implemented on top of WebGL.
  • gl-react-native and gl-react-expo are light wrapper on top of respectively react-native-webgl and exgl webgl impl. They are a bit more experimental and it will be up to that underlying library to improve the state of the WebGL implementation if there are bugs/performance concerns. (there is no native code in gl-react side)

v3.15.0 should already be ready for React 16.3.0 (that is deprecating hooks like componentWillReceiveProps,..) and there will be more work done in the future to prepare for this whole new React async rendering idea. This will be very interesting for gl-react with current usage of https://github.com/gre/webgltexture-loader . Embracing that new React paradigm will likely simplify codebase and making it more powerful.
There also will be challenging work to make gl-react compatible with the new Context API idea. This is not making it easy because our GL.Node are both consumer and provider and I don't really like the idea it will multiply by 3 the component tree, especially technically the context we use never changes (because it's this, the component instance itself, we are providing to children components).

next plans

The library will continue to embrace React paradigm as close as possible, and will stabilize its purpose of doing various effects over many kind of contents.
We already support many kind of contents (image, video, canvas, camera,...) and we'll continue to add more and more type of textures if we find any missing.

There will be more advanced features to explore in the future, for instance covering WebGL usecases like vertex shaders and vertex data if there is a need to go there. NB: we won't compete with library like Three.js (if you need a 3D scene, use something like threejs) or Pixi.js (if you need efficient 2D sprites, typically for a game), but we can be a elegant alternative when it comes to do complex effects over contents.

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