Chapter 1. Babylon.js and the TypeScript Language

Babylon.js is a framework that allows you to create complete 3D applications and 3D video games for the Web. Babylon.js has a community that grows day after day; a community that actively contributes to the project, adding more and more features. This chapter gives you a brief introduction to the framework's vision and the TypeScript language as, Babylon.js was developed using this.

The Babylon.js framework embeds all the necessary tools to handle specific 3D applications. It allows you to load and draw 3D objects, manage these 3D objects, create and manage special effects, play and manage spatialized sounds, create gameplays, and more. Babylon.js is an easy-to-use framework as you can set up (you'll see this later) these things with the minimum lines of code.

Babylon.js is a JavaScript framework developed using TypeScript. TypeScript is a compiled and multiplatform language that generates pure JavaScript files.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

• An introduction to Babylon.js
• The reason Babylon.js has been developed using TypeScript
• An introduction to TypeScript