Just a stupidly fast Entity Component System

• Entity Relationships as first class citizens
• Iterate 800,000 entities at 60 frames per second
• Type-safe Luau API
• Zero-dependency package
• Optimized for column-major operations
• Cache friendly archetype/SoA storage
• Rigorously unit tested for stability

Installation

With Wally:

jecs = "ukendio/jecs@0.6.0" # Inside wally.toml

With pesde:

pesde add wally#ukendio/jecs@0.6.0

With npm (roblox-ts):

npm i @rbxts/jecs

Example

local world = jecs.World.new()
local pair = jecs.pair

-- These components and functions are actually already builtin
-- but have been illustrated for demonstration purposes
local ChildOf = world:component()
local Name = world:component()

local function parent(entity)
    return world:target(entity, ChildOf)
end
local function getName(entity)
    return world:get(entity, Name)
end

local alice = world:entity()
world:set(alice, Name, "alice")

local bob = world:entity()
world:add(bob, pair(ChildOf, alice))
world:set(bob, Name, "bob")

local sara = world:entity()
world:add(sara, pair(ChildOf, alice))
world:set(sara, Name, "sara")

print(getName(parent(sara)))

for e in world:query(pair(ChildOf, alice)) do
    print(getName(e), "is the child of alice")
end

-- Output
-- "alice"
-- bob is the child of alice
-- sara is the child of alice

Benchmarks

21,000 entities 125 archetypes 4 random components queried. Can be found under /benches/visual/query.luau

Inserting 8 components to an entity and updating them over 50 times. Can be found under /benches/visual/insertions.luau