Why developers like Phaser

What is Phaser?

It is a free open source HTML5 game framework. It uses Pixi.js for WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled to iOS and Android apps via 3rd party tools.

Phaser is a tool in the Game Development category of a tech stack.

Phaser is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Phaser's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Phaser?

Companies

11 companies reportedly use Phaser in their tech stacks, including Bitgap, PlanetSpark, and Cherpa.

Bitgap

PlanetSpark

Cherpa

Loritta.website

eClick's Stack

First Interactive ...

oit

Mathpang

Nightpoint.io

Developers

117 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Phaser.

My Stack

nick.karnik

My Stack

Things I Use/Know ...

My Stack

game-development

NemesisGS

TheGame

Phaser Integrations

Tauri

Pros of Phaser

Compile to iOS, Android and native apps

JavaScript or TypeScript

WebGL and Canvas rendering

Open Source

Decisions about Phaser

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Phaser in their tech stack.

Michał Podgórni

Mar 18, 2020 | 7 upvotes · 150.5K views

Needs advice

cPanel

Firebase

and

Nuxt.js

I'm planning to make a web app with browser games that would be a Progressive Web App. I decided to use Vue.js as the front framework and Firebase to store basic information about users. Then I found out about Nuxt.js and I figured it could be really handy for making the project as PWA.

The thing is, that I don't know if I will need Server Side Rendering for this, I couldn't find a lot of information but from what I know, the web app doesn't need SSR to be PWA. I am not sure how this would work with JavaScript browser games made with frameworks like Phaser or melon.js. Also, I host my website on GoDaddy and I've heard that it's quite hard to set up SSR with cPanel.

So my questions are:

Should I use SSR for Progressive Web Application built with Nuxt, filled with javascript browser games that are lazily loaded, or does that not make sense? If it makes sense, would SSR work with godaddy hosting and cPanel?

Any help would be appreciated!

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Phaser Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Phaser?

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CreateJS

It is a suite of modular libraries and tools which work together or independently to enable rich interactive content on open web technologies via HTML5. These libraries are interoperable with all modern desktop and mobile browsers, and have been thoroughly tested to achieve performance and reliability in the widest range of browsers possible.

Pixi

Super fast HTML 5 2D rendering engine that uses webGL with canvas fallback

Godot

It is an advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open source game engine. It is developed by hundreds of contributors from all around the world.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

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