
Building video games in React with Joe Hart
PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket
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How to Build a Game in React
If you were building this for real you might have used a game engine or a typed language. Like what kind of things do this help with when you're creating something as complex as a game? Definitely because that's the thing is like there's just lots of maths stuff right of like being able to set up lighting algorithms or even pathfinding artificial intelligence. Game engines give you all of these things and lets you get to the state of making a game quicker. Whereas building it in React it was not necessarily joyous and there were lots of rabbit holes I kind of got stuck down while I was in there.
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