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Your game HUD is just React: overlay UI over a CarverJS game canvas

DEV Community·Het Dave·29 days ago
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Most browser game setups separate game rendering from UI rendering. The game owns the canvas; HTML elements layer over it with careful z-index management. State crossing that boundary usually means event emitters, global flags, or a separate state system. In some frameworks, the game objects are their own DOM abstraction. In raw canvas work, the DOM overlay is entirely your problem. CarverJS takes a different position: the game is a React subtree. The HUD is another React subtree positioned next to it. No second renderer, no event bus. Just JSX. The structure <Game> owns the canvas, the game loop, and the audio context. From React's perspective it is still JSX — which means you wrap it, position siblings over it with CSS, and pass state up and down through normal React patterns.…

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