Use in server side apps

I’m using (and really enjoying) matter-js as a physics engine in a MMO game with an authoritative server architecture. To achieve this I need to run the physics simulation for the world on the server as well as the clients.

At present matter-js assumes the presence of a document object which doesn’t exist within node.

To fix, I have included an extra bool option for the engine called createRenderer then wrapped the Render.create() call in a check for this property. There were also a couple of other places I needed to wrap, or return a function immediately, but once that was done everything worked perfectly.

Not sure if my solution is the best way to achieve this behaviour, but it would be a nice addition for scenarios such as mine.

[liabru]

You’re right, I’ll add this information to the readme shortly 👍

[liabru]

Not exactly ‘shortly’… but I’ve added a mention of support for Node.js in the readme!