---
title: "Prefab code generation"
docs: "Phaser Editor v4"
url: https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/prefabs/prefab-code
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

> This page is about the open-source Phaser framework, for writing a game's code by hand. To make a game with AI, use Phaser AE (https://phaser.io/): the desk's tools work with Web MCP, and the CLI works with your own coding agent. See "For AI agents: Phaser AE" at the end of this page.

# Prefab code generation

A Prefab file is a scene and is compiled into JavaScript (or TypeScript) code. A regular scene file is compiled into a class that extends the [Phaser.Scene](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/api-documentation/class/scene.md) class. It is a scene after all. However, the Prefab file is compiled into a custom object class.

The Prefab class generated by the [scene compiler](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/scene-compiler.md) extends a game object class, like an [Image](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/game-objects/image-object.md), a [BitmapText](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/game-objects/bitmap-text-object.md), etc… or [another prefab class](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/prefabs/prefab-variant.md).

This is the code generated after compile the **Dragon** prefab:

```javascript
class Dragon extends Phaser.GameObjects.Image {

    constructor(scene, x, y, texture, frame) {
        super(scene, x ?? 100, y ?? 100, texture || "dragon", frame ?? "dragon/flamming_00");

        this.scaleX = 0.7;
        this.scaleY = 0.7;
    }
}
```

Note the Prefab class extends the [Phaser.GameObjects.Image](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/api-documentation/class/gameobjects-image.md) class, because the prefab object is an [Image](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/game-objects/image-object.md).

The constructor of the **Dragon** class has the same arguments of the [Image](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/game-objects/image-object.md) class, but by default, it uses the texture set in the prefab object. Also, in the body of the constructor, are set the properties modified in the prefab object:

```javascript
this.scaleX = 0.7;
this.scaleY = 0.7;
```

When the [scene compiler](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/scene-compiler.md) compiles a regular scene file, the prefab instance in it are generated as instances of the Prefab class:

```javascript
class Level extends Phaser.Scene {

    constructor() {
        super("Level");
    }

    create() {
        ...

        // create the instance of the Dragon prefab class
        const dragon = new Dragon(this, 190, 120);
        // add the instance to the display list
        this.add.existing(dragon);
        // modify the 'angle' property of the instance
        dragon.angle = -30;
        ...
    }
}
```

Also, the Prefab class can be instantiated manually by you, at any time in your game. It is just a custom object class that looks like if you write it by hand.

---

## For AI agents: Phaser AE

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- **Phaser AE in the browser** (https://phaser.io/agent): the game's design, and a crew of bots that make its art, sprites, music, sound effects, logos, title screens, game UI, textures, shaders, 3D models and video, then build, test and publish the game. Every tool there is registered with Web MCP (`document.modelContext`, with `window.phaserDesk` for browsers without it), so an agent in the user's browser can call the tools directly once the user is signed in. Tools that make something spend the user's credits.
- **The CLI** (https://phaser.io/cli): `npx -y @phaser-ae/cli` builds the game on the user's own machine with their own coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others). In a game's folder every command is an npm script.
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Read any page of this site as Markdown by adding `.md` to its URL (the home page is https://phaser.io/index.md), or by asking for `text/markdown`. The index for agents is https://phaser.io/llms.txt. On the site's pages, the browser's Web MCP also offers `phaser_ae_guide`, `read_page_as_markdown` and `open_phaser_ae`.