Establishing the Development Workflow

While it is an extremely versatile and powerful tool for developing, running, and sharing a working 3D rendered scene, the Babylon.js Playground (PG) also has a place in the development workflow of a traditional web application. Effective software development is effectively enabled by the removal of friction. Friction in this sense is anything that presents an obstacle between writing code and executing the results and can take almost any form, from the mundane to the obscure. As an example, say it takes an hour between the time a change is made in code to the time that changed code is running in the developer’s web browser. The developer will then be compelled to include as much as possible in every new build, which then makes it more difficult to understand the effects of any one change on the application’s behavior. Focus is diluted and progress is incremental and not in proportion to the effort required in these situations, which...