v4 official release date?

WisdomSky

Hello everyone,

I was thinking of getting into creating my own mmorpg game. So I decided to look up if there is a javascript-based (specially typescript one) one which allows me to utilize my web development skillset. And then I luckily found this one which suitably match what I'm looking for (a sprite-based game). I was looking into Egret at first but then I stumbled upon this one and it looks much easier to digest than Egret!

My my worries now is if I start developing now using v3, will there be a lot of breaking changes or will the migration from v3 to v4 be smooth or hard? Is the current branch of v4 useable enough or is it still not stable for use? I apologize for these tons of questions.

The v4 seems to focus on migrating the compiler/transpiler/bundler/etc toolchain into newer packages which is what I would prefer using too.

Samarium

Version 4 does not change the way a game is designed. So you can start designing now on version 3.

Here are the main changes:

Running the game on the latest versions of NodeJS
Switching from WebPack to ViteJS
Switching unit tests from Jest to Vitest
The major release of PixiJS and other libraries

This version 4 will bring some simplifications on the structure of the project but it will read the current structure of version 3

There is still some work to do and it is not advisable to start from the v4 branch which is not stable.

I think to release a beta version of the version 4 for the month of May

mqllin

I look forward to the release