Happy New Year, everyone! Letโ€™s make 2026 an excellent year for web game development!

React Three Fiber v10 Alpha and Drei v11 Alpha are out! With a new scheduler and first-class WebGPU support (new TSL hooks!), this is a big day for the R3F ecosystem. Huge props to Dennis Smolek for the incredible amount of work that went into making this happen. They are still experimental, so please give them a try and share your feedback on Poimandresโ€™ Discord or GitHub.

Koota by Krispy from Poimandres is a new ECS library built for real-time apps, games, and XR experiences. It features a data-oriented architecture with first-class React integration, entity relations, and efficient querying. Use as much or as little as you need for your project! Koota is receiving frequent and well-documented updates.

Web Game Database is a new website by dek (Hordes.io) that tracks the number of concurrent users of various web games. Based on public data provided by the games themselves, itโ€™s a great way to see how popular different games are and how their traffic changes over time. Here is a thread about how the holiday season affected traffic.

Needle Inspector: DevTools for Three.js is a fantastic Chrome extension made by Needle that lets you inspect any Three.js scene. It supports visual scene hierarchy, real-time property editing, performance monitoring, advanced inspector tools, integrated AI support, and more. A must-have for Three.js developers.

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