Request Animation Frame Loops Demystified - How to get started

Today I'm going to start with using snowblower to make some request animation frame loops.


In whatever context you want, make a SnowBlower factory for a stage. Your runtime should create one instance of a stage for every canvas you need.


Here it is folks. I did not write specific code for your rendering engine. You need to expose whatever stage to the objects your are creating so they can call this code:


Piece of cake. Now all you have to do is pick a rendering engine, render the view in the request animation loop, and create your game.

I suggest using PIXI.js or phaser.js because it's a really great API for canvas rendering. Make sure you do all the work before adding the item to the stage. Remove as many variable declarations outside of the draw function as possible to prevent as much resource allocation and memory leaking as possible. Keep it simple. If you want to pass the draw function a parameter or use "this" as the stage, you can modify your request animation loop like this:


In the end, everything is logical and fun.

Have any suggestions? Feel free to comment/post on Google Plus.

Thanks!

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