Game Development With React

Articles & Tutorials

Using React in web games (blog.logrocket.com)
Oct 22, 2020
In this article, we will be looking at how React is used in developing web games by building a tic-tac-toe game.
  • Fortune Ikechi
Tic-Tac-Toe in React (kyleshevlin.com)
Aug 02, 2020
In this blog post, Kyle Shevlin teaches you how to build tic-tac-toe in React using CSS grid and the `useReducer` hook.
  • Kyle Shevlin
Learn How to Build Tic-Tac-Toe with React Hooks (freecodecamp.org)
May 29, 2020
The example game is pulled from React's official tutorials but is brought up to date using React hooks - the latest hot topic in the React world.
  • Per Harald Borgen
React Native Candy Crush Clone (itnext.io)
Apr 03, 2020
I started building JellyBean Jam as a volunteer project for Puppetry Arts LLC. I wanted to gain experience in React Native and it seemed like a fun way to get started. Before we get started, don’t forget to download JellyBean Jam for free on the App Store and try it out. My high score is 1400.
  • Andrew Fenner
Using React-dnd to create a Tower of Hanoi game (blog.logrocket.com)
Mar 02, 2020
In this article, we’ll run away from the common usage of this lib, which is for file uploading or features alike. Instead, we’ll develop a game: the famous Tower of Hanoi.
  • Diogo Souza
Creating a rudimentary pool table game using React, Three JS and react-three-fiber: Part 1 (dev.to)
Oct 28, 2019
This is a three-part series of articles where we will see how we can use React, three.js, and react-three-fiber to create a game of pool table.
  • Manan Joshi
Building Snake with react-native-game-engine (medium.com)
Aug 29, 2019
In order to re-create this game I decided to use the (to my knowledge) only game engine currently available for React Native: react-native-game-engine
  • Tamas Szikszai
Minesweeper Tutorial in React Native (youtube.com)
Aug 26, 2019
Building minesweeper in react native in less than 50 minutes.
  • Tamas Szikszai
Build a Multiplayer Tic Tac Toe Game in React (dev.to)
Aug 05, 2019
Tic tac toe is a quintessential childhood game. All it requires is something to write on and something to write with. But what if you want to play with someone that's in another location? In this case, you would need to use an application that connects you and another player to the game.
  • Oscar Castro
How to code the Game of Life with React (medium.freecodecamp.org)
Mar 05, 2019
The Game of Life involves a two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, alive or dead. At each step, every cell interacts with its eight adjacent neighbors by following a simple set of rules resulting in births and deaths.
  • Pablo Regen
Learn advanced React patterns by developing a game with sprite animation (medium.freecodecamp.org)
Aug 02, 2018
Have you ever wanted to learn some advanced React patterns? Or build your own game engine? If at least one answer is yes, then this article is for you.
  • Pavel Vlasov
How I built a React game with react-dnd and react-flip-move (medium.freecodecamp.org)
Jun 14, 2018
This is a high level overview of my implementation of a puzzle/word game built entirely in React.
  • Nicholas Vincent-Hill
Learning React.js by building a Minesweeper game (codeburst.io)
May 23, 2018
Minesweeper game is a classic board game that is aesthetically similar to tic-tac-toe and it is simple enough to be possible for a beginner like me to build.
  • Sandip Shrestha
How to code the “Game of Life” with React in under an hour (medium.freecodecamp.org)
May 04, 2018
Recently I watched the famous video that creates a snake game in less than 5 minutes (on Youtube). It looked pretty interesting to do this…
  • Charlee Li
Developing Games with React, Redux, and SVG (auth0.com)
Feb 06, 2018
Learn how to make React and Redux control a bunch of SVG elements to create a game.
  • Bruno Krebs
Do you want to learn more about React? Let’s build — and then play — a game (medium.freecodecamp.org)
Nov 17, 2017
Building simple game apps beats building abstract (and todo) apps on so many levels.
  • Samer Buna
How I built a super-simple game using React-Native (hackernoon.com)
Feb 28, 2017
Today I released a simple React-Native game on the App Store with the aim of providing some tips on how to handle small React-Native projects like this one.
  • Matteo Mazzarolo

Video Guides & Talks

Build Hangman With React (youtube.com)
Aug 07, 2020
In this video we will create a hangman game using React with hooks.
  • Jesse Hall
Web Speech API & React Tutorial - Word Matching Game (youtube.com)
May 28, 2020
In this video we'll cover the Web Speech API, building a word matching game for learning a language, similar to one of the features that DuoLingo has.
Building Whack-A-Mole in React Native with rn-sprite-sheet (youtube.com)
Sep 22, 2019
Today I'm going to recreate yet another classic game in React Native: Whack-A-Mole. I'm going to use rn-sprite-sheet, which I believe is one of the best ways to do on-demand animation with React Native in a game.
  • Tamas Szikszai
Making a PRODUCTION ready Flappy Bird in React Native (youtube.com)
Sep 14, 2019
In the previous episode we created a proof of concept version of Flappy Bird using react-native-game-engine and Matter.js. While it was fun, it wasn't even remotely the kind of game that any user would enjoy or even use for more than 10 seconds. Today we are aiming to make the game to be (more or less) production ready.
  • Tamas Szikszai
A CEO who can code? Watch Netlify's CEO code a Sudoku app from scratch in a bar on a Saturday night (youtube.com)
Sep 06, 2019
Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann live codes a Sudoku app using Netlify while sitting in a bar on late one Saturday night. We recorded this in GitHub's bar in their office during the 2018 freeCodeCamp JAMstack Hackathon.
  • Matt Biilmann
Flappy Bird with react-native-game-engine and Matter.js (youtube.com)
Sep 04, 2019
Today I'm building the "classic" game Flappy Bird in react native, using react-native-game-engine and Matter.js. This kind of game is not necessarily something that I would encourage to build using react native, but it is entirely possible, so might as well.
  • Tamas Szikszai
Building Snake with react-native-game-engine (youtube.com)
Aug 29, 2019
React native tutorial on building the classic Snake game, made popular by Nokia in the late 90s.
  • Tamas Szikszai
Building a Slot Machine Game in React Native (Part #2) - Highlighting the winning lines (youtube.com)
Aug 24, 2019
This is the second part of the series where I try to create a fully fledged Slot Machine Game in React Native. In this episode we are going to evaluate the result of the spin and highlight the lines that won with a nice little animation.
  • Tamas Szikszai
Building a Slot Machine Game in React Native (Part #1) (youtube.com)
Aug 23, 2019
Slot Machines are not necessarily the kind of apps you would build in React Native... Challenge... Accepted.
  • Tamas Szikszai
How to Build Tetris in React - GameDev Tutorial (youtube.com)
Aug 14, 2019
Learn to create a Tetris game with React Hooks in this tutorial course for beginners. You will learn how to build Tetris from scratch using hooks like useState, useEffect, useCallback and custom hooks. Styling is done with Styled Components.
  • Thomas Weibenfalk
3D Components in React Application (youtube.com)
Jan 07, 2019
Denys makes 3D photorealistic games which run in web browsers. He cares about performance, reusable and high-quality code.
  • Denys Periel
PIXI.js in React Native for beginners (youtube.com)
Nov 26, 2018
Learn how to use pixi.js to make mobile 2D video games. Really this is just the setup but you can use most pixijs features with Expo React Native.
Making games and physics work with Reason & Reprocessing (youtube.com)
Nov 22, 2018
Reason is great for a whole lot of things, but let me take you through a story of trying to write a 2D physics engine in just under 8 hours (Mistakes were made), what strongly typed languages don’t protect you off, and a vision of what you could build with Reason or Reprocessing.
  • Phil Plückthun

Books & Guides

Learn React.js By Building Games: 2nd Edition (jscomplete.com)Get it on Amazon
Mar 01, 2018
Learn fundamental and advanced concepts of React.js by building four simple browser games.
  • Samer Buna

Courses & Video Series

React.js: Getting Started (pluralsight.com)
Apr 11, 2017
Learn the basics of React.js, and build an in-browser, math skills kids' game from scratch with it
  • Samer Buna

Podcast Episodes

Building Steam Games with React (syntax.fm)
Sep 04, 2019
In this episode, Scott and Wes talk with Drew Conley about building games with Javascript.