Are "type" properties still needed?

As per #7291, the type property was added to objects because the closure compiler was anonymizing constructors. Since switching to a modular build this should no longer be a problem, and indeed running the following:

for(let p in THREE){
    if(typeof THREE[p] === 'function'){
	try{
	    console.log((new THREE[p]()).constructor.name);
        }
	catch(e){
	    // console.log(e);
	}
    }
}

outputs the correct names: FogExp2 Fog Scene LensFlare Sprite LOD Skeleton Bone Mesh LineSegments …

and so on.

Is this property still needed? Or can it be refactored out?

[mrdoob]

Seems like we still need these… It’s true that the new modular structure retains the function names, but that only works with three.js and three.modules.js. three.min.js still obfuscates the function names…

[looeee]

Ah, good catch! Thanks for investigating 😃