PixiJS — Complete Guide

PixiJS Getting Started — Complete Beginner's Guide to 2D WebGL

Learn PixiJS from scratch: setup, renderer, stage, sprites, and textures. Build your first 2D WebGL scene step by step with interactive examples.

PixiJS Graphics & Textures — Drawing Shapes and Managing Spritesheets

Master PixiJS Graphics API and texture management: draw shapes, work with sprite sheets, BaseTexture vs Texture, RenderTexture, and texture regions.

PixiJS Animation & Interactivity — Ticker, Events, Drag-and-Drop, Filters

Create interactive PixiJS apps: ticker-based animation, pointer events, drag-and-drop, hit areas, filters, and tweening. Build a draggable shape playground.

PixiJS Text & Fonts — Text Objects, Bitmap Fonts, and Rich Text Styling

Render text in PixiJS: Text objects, TextStyle, web fonts, bitmap fonts, rich text tags, and performance comparison between Text and BitmapText.

PixiJS Accessibility — Making Canvas Content Screen Reader Friendly

Learn PixiJS accessibility techniques to make WebGL canvas content compatible with screen readers, including focus management, ARIA labels, keyboard navigation, and fallback text for interactive 2D applications.

PixiJS Sprites — Creating and Managing 2D Images

Learn PixiJS sprites: create sprites from textures, set position and scale, use anchors for positioning, sprite sheets for animation, and optimize sprite rendering with batching.

PixiJS Tiling Sprites — Scrolling Backgrounds and Textures

Learn PixiJS tiling sprites: create repeating backgrounds, implement parallax scrolling layers, animate tile position for infinite scroll, create seamless tile sets, and optimize tile rendering.

PixiJS Animated Sprites — Frame-Based Animation

Learn PixiJS animated sprites: create frame-based animations from sprite sheets, control playback speed and looping, build idle and walk cycles, and manage animation state transitions.

PixiJS Filters — Applying Visual Effects

Learn PixiJS filters: apply blur, color matrix, displacement, and glow effects to sprites and containers, create custom GLSL filters, control filter area and quality, and optimize filter performance.

PixiJS Masks — Clipping and Revealing Content

Learn PixiJS masks: use shape masks for clipping sprites, alpha masks for transparency-based reveals, apply masks to containers, animate mask shapes, and combine masks with filters.

PixiJS Blend Modes — Compositing Visual Layers

Learn PixiJS blend modes: use additive, multiply, screen, and overlay blending, create light effects with additive blending, build neon glow effects, and combine blend modes for atmospheric scenes.

PixiJS Particles — Creating Visual Particle Systems

Learn PixiJS particles: create particle emitters for fire, smoke, and sparks, configure particle lifespan and speed, use particle textures, apply gravity and forces, and optimize particle rendering.

PixiJS Drag and Drop — Interactive Element Dragging

Learn PixiJS drag and drop: make sprites draggable with pointer events, implement drop zones, create snap-to-grid behavior, build sortable lists, and handle touch and mouse input.

PixiJS Interaction — Pointer Events and Event Handling

Learn PixiJS interaction system: handle pointer events (click, hover, drag), use event propagation and stopPropagation, manage interactive areas, handle multi-touch, and build interactive UI components.

PixiJS Render Textures — Offscreen Rendering and Caching

Learn PixiJS render textures: render display objects to textures, cache complex graphics for performance, create dynamic textures at runtime, build minimaps, and implement render-to-texture effects.

PixiJS Bitmap Text — High-Performance Text Rendering

Learn PixiJS bitmap text: create text with pre-rendered bitmap fonts, use BMFont format, style text with font size and alignment, build score displays and HUD elements, and compare with standard text.

PixiJS WebGL vs Canvas — Choosing a Renderer

Learn PixiJS WebGL and Canvas renderers: understand differences between GPU and CPU rendering, choose the right renderer for your project, force Canvas fallback, and detect renderer capabilities.

PixiJS Performance — Optimizing 2D Rendering

Learn PixiJS performance optimization: reduce draw calls with batching, use sprites instead of graphics, optimize texture atlas usage, manage memory with pooling, and profile rendering performance.

PixiJS Project — Interactive 2D Game

Build a complete PixiJS 2D game with sprites, animations, particle effects, collision detection, score tracking, responsive layout, and optimized rendering for mobile and desktop.