Javascript

• Crash Course in PixiJS

  March 17, 2026

  Beginner

  If you’ve been through the JavaScript crash course, you’ve got the language basics down. Now we need a way to actually draw things on screen. That’s where PixiJS comes in. Let’s look at what it is, why it’s a great fit for tile-based games, and how to get something on screen with just a few lines of code.

  Why PixiJS?

  Browsers have a built-in way to draw 2D graphics called the Canvas API. You can draw rectangles, images, and paths with it. It works fine for simple stuff, but it runs on the CPU — your computer’s main processor — and for games with lots of tiles updating every frame, that becomes slow pretty quickly.

• Crash Course in JavaScript

  March 8, 2026

  Beginner

  So you might be here because you’re interested in code or fearful of it. Hopefully, this little read will empower you with some basics. And we’ll discover it’s really not too scary and kind of exciting what we can do with very little.

  These are some foundational concepts. You don’t have to read or understand this to begin. But if you’re unfamiliar with code you might have a better time if you do. I know it’s boring and a little hard to relate to these ideas without all the context of what you’ll be doing later.