Ever considered TypeScript for PlayCanvas?

neoflash · December 11, 2017, 6:41am

neoflash:

TODO

Extend PC engine code so that we can use TypeScript style classes when creating a script.

Ideally instead of doing this:
var MyScript = pc.createScript('myScript');

MyScript.attributes.add('myAtt', {
  type: 'string'
});

MyScript.prototype.initialize = function() {
  // Insert awesome game programming stuff here
}
… we could do something that looks more like this:
class MyScript extends ScriptType {
  myAtt: string;
  initialize() {
    // Insert awesome game programming stuff here
  }
}

Instead of monkeying around with the engine code, I wrote a simple wrapper that allows ES6 class syntax. Code here: