remix-three

Hi! remix-three is a very tiny shim layer allowing you to render a <Canvas> from @react-three/fiber into a Remix app, as well as render Remix <Outlet>s and calls to useLoaderData() inside your <Canvas>.

This repo consists of three things:

1. A set of patch-package patches to make all the @react-three/* libraries play nice with the Remix compiler.
2. A useRemixBridge utility build on @react-three/drei's useContextBridge that will replay all of the necessary Remix context values into the <Canvas> rendering fiber.
3. A <Link3d> component that allows you to have any object in your 3D scene participate in Remix navigation.

Getting started

1. npm i remix-three @react-three/fiber@8.0.19 @react-three/drei@9.11.3 @remix-run/react@1.5.1 patch-package

2. Add the following to your package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "patch-package --patch-dir node_modules/remix-three/patches"
  }
}

3. Use useRemixBridge() when you create your <Canvas>:

// app/routes/canvas.tsx
import { useRemixBridge } from "remix-three";

export default function CanvasRoute() {
  let RemixBridge = useRemixBridge();

  return (
    <Canvas>
      <RemixBridge>
        <MyScene />
      </RemixBridge>
    </Canvas>
  );
}

function MyScene() {
  let matches = useMatches();
  let data = useLoaderData();
  let location = useLocation();

  return (
    <mesh>
      <boxGeometry args={[1, 1, 1]} />
      <meshNormalMaterial />
    </mesh>
  );
}

NB: You must split out your scene content into a separate component that you render inside the RemixBridge in order to access anything from the remix or react-router context.

Link3d

In general, this component takes the exact same props as a regular Remix <Link> but wraps an Object3D inside your scene. It works by invoking navigation directly in the same way a regular <Link> would. It is totally possible this component may mess with your refs or click handlers of the child element, but I've done my best to avoid that.

import { Link3d } from 'remix-three'

function MyScene() {
	return (
		<Link to="./author">
			<mesh>
				<boxGeometry args={[1, 1, 1]} />
				<meshNormalMaterial />
			</mesh>
		</Link>

		<Outlet />
	)
}