BitECS

• Entity Component System ECS
• repo: https://github.com/NateTheGreatt/bitECS
• written-in: javascript
• usedBy Ethereal Engine Hubs Matrix Third Room
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  • Element Babylon.js
  • Phaser

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🔮 Simple, declarative API 🔥 Blazing fast iteration 🔍 Powerful & performant queries 💾 Serialization included 🍃 Zero dependencies 🌐 Node or browser 🤏 ~5kb minzipped 🏷 TypeScript support ❤ Made with love 🔺 glMatrix support

Interesting

• "bitECS has no built-in concept of systems. We frequently refer the functions invoked during the game loop as “systems”, but there is no formal construct."

Frequently Asked Questions

• Is there a string type for components?
  • Strings are expensive and usually unnecessary to have the ECS handle. Instead, create a mapping of integers to strings, and store the integers in the component data as a reference to a string. This makes string serialization minimal and

Resources

Learning Resource

• https://github.com/ourcade/phaser3-bitecs-getting-started
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNwtXgWIx3rhz72-UxKLdCDdqFsnwNc_u

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Backlinks

• Putt Club
• Arche
• Ethereal Engine
• Third Room
• ECS