How to render three.js server-side?

Question

How can I render three.js server side? At the moment our website renders player avatars using three.js locally, however that issues security things as well as potential bugs with people with less-end computers (people can inject the code into console and have it render god knows what..)

I looked into using node.js but all documentation on that is vague and appears to be quite outdated..

Any help would be useful

Current local: http://pastebin.com/yv5Qamfz

Answer 1

There are several discussions about using three.js on node.js on the three.js GitHub page. Check for example:

• Use Three.js functions in node.js
• node.js server rendering with node-webgl and/or headless-gl

There is also this question on stackoverflow which could be considered a duplicate of your question.

This one is dealing with a project called node-three.js on GitHub. It will support rendering in three.js on node.js. Not sure if it does exactly what you want (I have no first hand experience with this library) but worth checking it out I guess.