Ask HN: How would you build an interactive hex-grid for web?

2 pointsr2b23 years ago2 comments

I'm working on a board game and would like to build dynamic board builder/generator for the web.

Do you know of any JavaScript OSS libraries for working with clickable hexagon grids in HTML?

Or would go straight to something more custom like D3 / SVG?

Thanks!

Start with the canonical resource for how to draw hexes in code:

I made an online hexagonal chess game a few months ago. You can see how I did it with plain HTML/CSS/JS:

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