🚧 WIP — content stubbed, being reworked. Structure is settled; copy firms up as the repo locks. This is the body of the one prep email (~Sep 1, once versions lock) and the standing prereqs page. The repo clone/verify block gets prepended at send time — assembly order in the Comms page.
Advanced React Three Fiber · Gobelins, Paris · Sep 8–9
Thanks for coming to the conference!
I wanted to reach out to help some quick prep so things go smoothly. Mostly checking your tooling is current, your browser does WebGPU, and your React isn't rusty. Fifteen minutes now saves you the first hour of Day 1.
[Note: with the one-email plan, the repo clone block leads this send — the sections below follow it.]
| What | The bar |
|---|---|
| Node | 22 LTS. Use a version manager (fnm, nvm, volta) so you can match the repo exactly. |
| pnpm | corepack enable and you're done. It's what the repo expects. |
| Git | Anything recent. |
| Browser | WebGPU is required — this is the one to take seriously. Current Chrome or Edge is the safe answer; current Safari and Firefox generally work too. Open [webgpureport.org] — if it lights up green, you're set. If it doesn't: update the browser, check hardware acceleration is on, update GPU drivers. |
| Editor | Whatever you like. |
Any laptop from the last few years is fine. Integrated graphics handles everything we build.
We assume you've seen React — components, props, hooks — even if you don't write it daily. The workshop is R3F, and R3F leans on React hard.
If your React is rusty or new: do the React quick start before you come. An evening is enough. We'll help you at the workshop either way, but the people who skim it will have a noticeably better day — especially the morning, and again mid-afternoon when we do state.
You already know Three, so we won't insult you with a scene-graph refresher. If you want to see where we're headed anyway, the workshop site is at [site link].
A GitHub account, for cloning. That's it.
Address, doors-open time, laptop + charger. Questions before the day? [#help-channel — TBD].
Facilitator notes (strip before sending): confirm the WebGPU check link · help-channel link · site link · repo block prepends at send time.