Quick template for starting developing babylonJS with Typescript and using Webpack as bundler. As a cool bonus this template also demonstrate how to setup https with webpacks dev server.

Install dependencies

npm install

Run a local dev server:

npm start

Build

npm run build

Environment variables can be passed and used as normal enviroment variables as in node.js. For instance NODE_ENV is default sat to 'development' but can be changed to production by setting the environment:

export NODE_ENV=production

This is done in the docker file see below.

• Entry File: index.ts
• Renderer: renderer.ts - Creates a BabylonJS engine and scene.

The project includes two scenes:

1. The famous playground scene.
2. An example of loading a GLTF model with a skybox asynchronously.

To create a Docker image:

docker build -t html/babylonjs .

To run the Docker container in detached mode (-d) and forward to port 8080 (-p) on the host:

docker run -d -p 8080:80 html/babylonjs

Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/

You can easily install local certificates and add them to your browser using mkcert. For more details, visit the mkcert (GitHub page)[https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert].

1. Install mkcert:

   mkcert -install
   

2. Create the certificates:

   mkcert mydomain.dev localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1
   

   This creates certificates for the specified domains and adds them to the current folder.

3. To set up local hostnames for development, edit your hosts file and add a new hostname mapped to localhost:

   127.0.0.1 mydomain.dev
   

   This step may require administrative privileges.

If you encounter permission issues when using port 443, run the following command:

sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' $(readlink -f $(which node))