adammarcwilliams / learnpixijs

Source code repository for the book "Learn PixiJS"

Learn PixiJS

This is the code repository for the book Learn PixiJS.

There are two ways to access the source code: by downloading the ZIP file or by cloning this repository.

The ZIP file

The easiest way is just to download the ZIP file. It contains a frozen snapshot of all the source code for Learn PixiJS as it was on the day the book was published. That means it's guaranteed to work with code in the book.

Clone this repository

Alternatively, you can use git to clone this repository. (If you don't know how to use git you can find out here.) Cloning the repository will give you the latest version of the submodules, including the latest version of Pixi. (Be aware that the source code in the book was tested with Pixi 3.0.7. If you are using a later version of Pixi you may encounter incompatibilities.)

To clone this repository, run the following in the command line:

git clone [email protected]:kittykatattack/learningGit.git

When it's finished, run the following two commands:

git submodule init
git submodule update

To optionally update the submodules to the very latest versions, run this command:

git submodule foreach git pull origin master

This will pull the latest versions of the submodules from their repositories.

Launching a web server

You'll need to launch a web server in the root repository directory. A modern text editor like Light Table, Brackets or Atom will launch one for you automatically, directly from the editor, when you use it to open an HTML file in the browser.

Or you could launch a web server directly from the command line using http-server. After the server starts, navigate to http://localhost:8080/ in your browser and you'll be able to interact with working versions of all the example files in the book.

Keeping up with Pixi

Pixi is an actively developed library, so make sure you keep an eye on Pixi's code repository for any changes to the API.