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title: "Bringing Our Phaser.js Templates into the Future!"
date: 2025-05-02T00:00:00.000Z
category: news
url: https://phaser.io/news/2025/05/bringing-our-phaserjs-templates-into-the-future
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Bringing Our Phaser.js Templates into the Future!

Good news everyone! I've just wrapped up a major refresh of all our Phaser.js templates. Let me share what's new and improved!

## A More Unified Approach

One of the coolest improvements is how we've reorganized our template structure:

- We now have two common Phaser templates that work as shared foundations
- This makes everything more consistent and easier to maintain
- We've created a clean divide between vanilla JavaScript/TypeScript templates and our framework-based ones

For those using React or Angular, don't worry - we've kept the eventbus system that helps your web components talk smoothly with Phaser scenes.

## What's New in Your Favorite Frameworks

### Angular
- We're now running on Angular 19! 🎉
- Thanks to @jabiinfante's brilliant suggestion, we can now reference components with this cleaner syntax:
  ```typescript
  phaserRef = viewChild.required(PhaserGame);
  ```

### React
- Fresh update to React 19
- We're still using forwardRef for now, but we're working on a more modern approach that aligns with React's latest recommendations

### Building Better
- Our popular Vite template is now on version 6.3.x
- We've also refreshed all our other build tools:
  - ESBuild
  - Webpack
  - Rollup
  - Parcel

## Tools That Make Your Life Easier

### Phaser Editor
- Fully updated to work perfectly with all our new templates

### Template Generator
- Remember how complicated it was to clean up scenes in the template generator? Not anymore!
- The new system is much simpler - just replace the base and everything works

## Ready for What's Next!

All these updates mean we're totally prepared for the next amazing version of Phaser. Your projects will have a rock-solid foundation that uses the latest and greatest tools available.

Happy coding! 😊

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