# Meep Engine
**The unopinionated, high-performance ECS engine for code-first developers.**

Meep is a battle-tested JavaScript game engine designed for scale. Built over 10+ years and used in commercial Steam releases, it strips away the bloat of traditional engines to offer a molecular, zero-allocation architecture.

It is designed for engineers who want full control, offering performance that rivals native code on the web.

[🕹️Examples](https://meep.company-named.com/examples/) | [📚 Documentation](https://meep.company-named.com/docs/getting-started/) | [🚀 Quick Start Template](http://gitlab.company-named.com/travnik/dream-engine-template)

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## Why Meep?
Most web engines are heavy, opinionated, and struggle with garbage collection. Meep is different.

* **Pure ECS Architecture:** A true data-oriented foundation that supports complex hierarchies and millions of entities. Unlike hybrid engines, our component queries are instantaneous.
* **Molecular Modularity:** Distributed as ~3,000 fine-grained modules. Need a lerp function? Import it for a 4-line footprint. You never pay for code you don't use.
* **Zero-Garbage Architecture:** Custom memory management ensures stable frame rates. Meep handles millions of objects on low-spec mobile hardware without GC spikes.
* **Code-First:** No GUI. No black boxes. Meep is a programmatic tool designed for software engineers who value architecture and long-term integration.
* **Battle-Hardened:** Covered by 6,500+ unit tests and extensive assertions. This is not a prototype; it is industrial-grade software.

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## 💎 Architecture: Pure ECS
Meep is not yet another Object-Oriented engine with an ECS tacked on; it is a **Pure Entity Component System** engine.

While other engines (like Unity) struggle with slow query times and documentation that advises you to use component lookups "sparingly" — Meep thrives on them.

* **Strict Data-Oriented Design:** One component instance per type per entity. This guarantees memory layout optimization and cache locality.
* **The Hierarchy Problem: Solved.**  Pure ECS architectures historically struggle with scene graphs and parent-child transforms. Meep solves this natively. You get the composability of a scene graph with the raw speed of a flat array. (Similar to the Rust-based Bevy engine).
* **Tiered API Access:**
  * **High-Level:** Use convenient abstraction layers for gameplay logic.
  * **Low-Level:** Drop down to raw typed arrays for performance-critical paths.
* **Uncompromised Speed:** Because the architecture is solid, you can query, filter, and iterate over millions of entities without performance cliffs.

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## ⚡ High-Performance Rendering
Meep implements a Clustered Forward+ rendering pipeline, allowing for scenes that traditional web engines choke on.

* **Unlimited Lighting:** Render thousands of point lights (muzzle flashes, explosions, torches) with clustered lighting.

* **GPU-Driven Decals:** Handle 1,000,000+ decals for persistent battle damage and environmental details.

* **Massive Terrain:** Chunk-based, auto-culled terrain system supporting up to 256 layers (vs Unity's 4).

* **"Particular" Particle Engine:** A zero-allocation particle system with full lighting, soft particles, and automatic atlassing. Compiled into just 4 shaders to eliminate state-switching overhead.

* **Path Tracing:** Includes a pure JS path tracer utilizing the engine's internal BVH.

## 🧠 AI & Simulation Tools
Meep provides a suite of tools rarely found in JS engines, optimized for complex decision making.

* **Behavior Trees & Blackboards:** Industry-standard tools for state management.

* **Monte-Carlo Tree Search:** The same algorithm used in AlphaGo, available for your decision logic.

* **Resource Allocation Solver:** Plan optimal actions based on limited resources (ammo, health, currency).

* **Spatial Query System:** Highly optimized BVH for Ray, Box, Frustum, and Point queries.

* **Inverse Kinematics:** Includes FABRIK solvers and specialized bip/quadruped solvers for uneven terrain adaptation.

## 🛠️ Developer Experience

### Installation & Stripping

Meep is designed to be invisible in production.
```shell
npm install @woosh/meep-engine
```

**Development Mode:** The engine includes ~4,000 assertions to help you catch errors instantly.

**Production Mode:** Using @rollup/plugin-strip, Meep compiles to tiny size and runs at the speed of light.

```js
// vite.config.js
import strip from '@rollup/plugin-strip';
export default defineConfig({
    plugins: [{ ...strip(), apply: 'build' }]
});
```

### Reliability
* **Tests:** 7,244 tests with 90%+ core coverage.

* **Stability:** Exhaustively tested corner cases over a decade of development.

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## Additional Features

| Category         | Features                                                                                                              |
|------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Audio            | Custom culling and attenuation; supports 1,000s of positional sources with zero overhead                              |
| Input            | Unified abstraction for Touch, Mouse, and Keyboard. Event-driven and Query-based APIs                                 |
| Assets           | Web-first asset streaming. The engine runs before assets even load                                                    |
| Serialization    | Binary serialization system with version upgrading                                                                    |
| UI               | High-speed, zero-garbage UI system. Optional—can be replaced with React/Vue if desired                                |
| Color Management | Scientific-grade color management toolkit, including spectral-integration tools and modern color spaces such as OKLab |
| NodeGraph        | A building block for node-graph systems, such as shader editors and workflow engines                                  | 
| Achievements     | State-of-the-art achievement system, using expressions and blackboards                                                |
| Inverse Kinematics (IK) | Highly optimized FABRIK inverse kinematics solver even the most complex IK use cases                                  |

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## License & Copyright
Copyright © 2026 Company Named Limited, All Rights Reserved.