Look ma, no canvas! Server-side 3D rendering with node.js and Three.js

If you wonder if and how you can render a Three.js 3D scene using node.js on the server, you may have been thinking about using a canvas module, such as Automattic/Canvas or run a headless browser such as Phantom or even a full-blown Firefox or Chrome on xvfb. But you don’t need to, thanks to a modified SoftwareRenderer.