New to Pixijs... can I just add attributes to a Sprite?

[kinome79]

So, learning Pixijs by building a game... created my ship, and it flies around with an asteroid like dynamic, leaving me to track its x and y velocities, if its accelerating, turning, firing, etc. I usually build a class for this, but the following seems to work for my purpose.

let ship = PIXI.Sprite.from('images/sprite.png');

ship.width=50;

ship.height=20;

ship.speed = .2;

ship.rotspeed = .07;

ship.xvel = 0;

ship.yvel = 0;

ship.rotating = 0;

ship.accelling = false;

ship.braking = false;

ship.shooting = false;

This seems to work just fine, and my ship is flying around without issue. Tried searching if this is OK, I mainly find implementations of set/getAttr, creating classes, etc. I haven't tried the same thing with a method yet ( ship.explode = () => {} ) but can almost imagine that will work too. Thoughs? Is this going to lead to problems down the road? 

[kinome79]

And sorry about the way the code looks... seems perfectly fine in my edit window, no additional spaces or chars I can find, but the result has extra lines and spacing. Weird.

[Yurii Bilas]

Hi, @kinome79! Your code is perfectly fine for a beginner. You can do like this while you learn. Also it will be ok to do so when you're just prototyping a new project and not taking it serious. But after some time, when you'll want to progress in development or make make big complex projects - it will become a little bit hard to maintain such code style. For big projects you'll probably need more of OOP, classes and stuff. Hope this helps!