angular-three

Angular Renderer for THREE.js

Leverage your Angular to build 3D applications with THREE.js

Installation

Angular CLI

npx ng add angular-three

Nx

npm i angular-three
npx nx g angular-three:init

Manual

npm i angular-three three

npm i -D @types/three

• Adjust tsconfig.json (or tsconfig.base.json) to include skipTypeCheck: false

Typically, we'd want to keep three and @types/three on the same minor version. Eg: 0.147, 0.148 etc..

Type

VSCode

• If you use ng add or nx generate command, this is setup for you.
• If you install angular-three manually, you can do the following steps to enable typings
  • Open .vscode/settings.json, or create one if you do not have it
  • Add html.customData property with the value of ["./node_modules/angular-three/metadata.json"]. If html.customData exists, simply add "./node_modules/angular-three/metadata.json" to the array

WebStorm/IntelliJ

• You should not need to do anything here but if things do not work, you can add web-types property to package.json with the value of "./node_modules/angular-three/web-types.json"

NeoVim

Setup will vary depending on your current NeoVim configuration. However, I'd expect the required steps to be the same

• neovim/nvim-lspconfig needs to be configured for html LSP
• init_options.dataPaths needs to include the path to node_modules/angular-three/metadata.json
• Setup a html/customDataContent handler (handlers = {["html/customDataContent"] = function() ... end} for Lua syntax) and return the content of the init_options.dataPaths

Here's an example setup for LazyVim

return {
  {
    "neovim/nvim-lspconfig",
    ---@class PluginLspOpts
    opts = {
      ---@type table<string, fun(server:string, opts:_.lspconfig.options):boolean?>
      setup = {
        html = function(_, opts)
          opts.init_options = {
            dataPaths = {
              vim.fn.getcwd() .. "/node_modules/angular-three/metadata.json",
            },
            configurationSection = { "html", "css", "javascript" },
            embeddedLanguages = {
              css = true,
              javascript = true,
            },
            provideFormatter = true,
          }

          opts.handlers = {
            ["html/customDataContent"] = function(err, result, ctx, config)
              local function exists(name)
                if type(name) ~= "string" then
                  return false
                end
                return os.execute("test -e " .. name)
              end

              if not vim.tbl_isempty(result) and #result == 1 then
                if not exists(result[1]) then
                  return ""
                end
                local content = vim.fn.join(vim.fn.readfile(result[1]), "\n")
                return content
              end
              return ""
            end,
          }

          return false
        end,
      },
    },
  },
}

Documentations

Read more about Angular Three usages in Documentations

Simple usage

• Create a Scene component as a Standalone Component

import { extend } from 'angular-three';
import { Mesh, BoxGeometry, MeshBasicMaterial } from 'three';

extend({ Mesh, BoxGeometry, MeshBasicMaterial });

@Component({
    standalone: true,
    template: `
        <ngt-mesh>
            <ngt-box-geometry />
            <ngt-mesh-basic-material color="darkred" />
        </ngt-mesh>
    `,
    schemas: [CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA],
})
export class Scene {}

• extend will add the THREE entities to angular-three catalogue which allows the renderer to recognize the custom tags: ngt-mesh, ngt-box-geometry etc..
• Custom Element tags follow this rule: ngt- + THREE classes in kebab-case. Mesh -> ngt-mesh
• schemas: [CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA] allows us to use custom tags on the template. This is Angular's limitation at the moment

• Render <ngt-canvas> component, use Scene component above to pass into [sceneGraph] input on <ngt-canvas>

<ngt-canvas [sceneGraph]="Scene" />

• ngt-canvas creates the basic building blocks of THREE.js: a default WebGLRenderer, a default Scene, and a default PerspectiveCamera

Contributions

Contributions are welcomed