generated: '2026-07-20'
method: searched
source: https://developer.playcanvas.com/ + npm (@playcanvas/*)
families:
  - name: Web Components
    description: >-
      Declarative PlayCanvas 3D scenes as HTML custom elements — drop <pc-app>,
      <pc-entity>, <pc-camera>, etc. into plain HTML with no build step.
    loader: "@playcanvas/web-components"
    install: npm install playcanvas @playcanvas/web-components
    docs: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/web-components/
    examples: https://playcanvas.github.io/web-components/examples/
    repository: https://github.com/playcanvas/web-components
  - name: React components
    description: Declarative JSX components and hooks for building PlayCanvas scenes in React.
    loader: "@playcanvas/react"
    install: npm install @playcanvas/react playcanvas
    docs: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/react/
    repository: https://github.com/playcanvas/react
  - name: PCUI
    description: >-
      User-interface component library (the framework behind the PlayCanvas
      Editor and tools) for building web UIs; includes a React package and PCUI
      Graph for node-based graph editors.
    loader: "@playcanvas/pcui"
    install: npm install @playcanvas/pcui
    docs: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/pcui/
    repository: https://github.com/playcanvas/pcui
notes: >-
  These are client-side/embeddable UI + scene component libraries, distinct from
  the server-side/engine SDKs catalogued in packages/. The core engine can also
  be loaded from a CDN.