Riximus / kaboomjs-vite-starter

A modified template of the official "npm init kaboom mygame" with vite hot reloading.

This is a modified version of the official npm init kaboom mygame template. This version includes Vite for hot reloading. You have to run the serve and watch commands in two separate terminals. There is also two build commands, one for windows and one for unix.

Check out the kaboom.js docs for more info and their github repository!

Folder structure

• src - source code for your kaboom project
• www - distribution folder, contains your index.html, built js bundle and static assets

Development

For starting the dev server on localhost:

$ npm run dev:serve

To see the changes with hot reloading:

$ npm run dev:watch

Distribution

Will build and minify your js files into www/js/main.js:

$ npm run prod:build

Will build your game (powershell) and package into a .zip file, you can upload to your server or itch.io / newground etc.

$ npm run prod:bundleW

If you have a unix machine please run this command to build and zip on linux:

$ npm run prod:bundleL