To build a HTML5 Game UI, there are usually two choices:
- Use the GUI system provided by your engine (each one is different with their limitations).
- Use HTML/CSS (but usual CSS framework like bootstrap are not designed for games) Which in both case can be annoying and time consuming.
The idea behind JIL is to provide the best of both world, in a user friendly way.
- Auto-scaling and Centering
- Vector positioning (
pivot,anchor,position,scale,rotation) - Fast HTML5/CSS3 (Use CSS3 transform & Virtual dom)
- Tween integration (Provide an easy way to animate your UI)
- Layer & Layout system (Easier to organize UI than table or flexbox)
- Engine agnostic (Work with HTML canvas and dont interfer with 2D/3D Engine):
- Babylon.js
- Pixi
- Phaser
- ...
Code and documentation copyright 2019 Kefniark
Code released under the MIT License.
