⚫️ Poimandres Libraries

Poimandres (opens in a new tab) is an open-source developer collective, which is an active community developing many tools for Three.js, making 3D in React, and a lot more (you might know them from Zustand or react-spring). Let’s take a closer look at the tools they develop.

Three.js and React Three Fiber libraries:

• Stars
  NPM
  TS
  Maintained
• React Three Fiber

  26k

  320k/w

  

  – Declarative Three.js in React
  26k320k/w
  
• Drei

  6k

  150k/w

  

  – Useful helpers for Three.js and R3F
  6k150k/w
  
• react-spring

  26k

  800k/w

  

  – Animations, can be used with R3F
  26k800k/w
  
• Leva

  4k

  35k/w

  

  – React components GUI
  4k35k/w
  
• gltfjsx

  4k

  /w

  

  – JSX from GLTF/GLB models, online GUI (opens in a new tab)
  4kN/A
  
• three-stdlib

  550

  140k/w

  

  – Three.js examples/jsm as a package
  550140k/w
  
• cannon-es

  2k

  10k/w

  

  – Fork of the cannon.js (opens in a new tab) physics engine
  2k10k/w
  
• use-cannon

  3k

  8k/w

  

  – Hooks for cannon-es
  3k8k/w
  
• postprocessing

  2k

  28k/w

  

  – Filter effects for Three.js
  2k28k/w
  
• react-postprocessing

  900

  18k/w

  

  – postprocessing for R3F
  90018k/w
  
• react-xr

  2k

  2k/w

  

  – VR/AR for R3F
  2k2k/w
  
• react-three-rapier

  600

  2k/w

  

  – Rapier (opens in a new tab) physics engine for R3F
  6002k/w
  
• react-three-jolt

  20

  10/w

  

  – Jolt (opens in a new tab) physics engine for R3F
  2010/w
  
• react-three-next

  2k

  /w

  

  – Next.js boilerplate for R3F
  2kN/A
  
• react-three-flex

  2k

  1k/w

  

  – Flexbox for R3F
  2k1k/w
  

State-management libraries:

• Stars
  NPM
  TS
  Maintained
• Zustand

  35k

  2M/w

  
  35k2M/w
  
• Jotai

  15k

  500k/w

  
  15k500k/w
  
• Valtio

  8k

  300k/w

  
  8k300k/w
  

As you can see there is a lot going on in the R3F ecosystem and this community is a driving force to make Three.js development more convenient. With the Poimandres ecosystem, we have a core set of libraries for 3D graphics to build our games upon.