Chore/update deps (support React 19)

- Add support for React 19
- Update Getting started guide and readme
- Update dependencies
- Make required changes to code for latest versions of React and R3F
- Disable performance widget in story books (for now) due to peer dependency to React 18
- Bump version for new release to npm

README.md

@@ -31,21 +31,33 @@ This library has dependencies to the following libs:
 npm i videx-3d
 ```
 
-You also need to install the peer-dependencies:
+You also need to install the required peer-dependencies. 
+
+First, if not already installed, you'll need React version 18 or later:
 ```
 // react
-npm i react@18 react-dom@18
+npm i react react-dom
+```
 
+React Three Fiber (R3F):
+```
+// react three fiber 
+npm i @react-three/fiber
+```
+Note that if using React 18, you need `@react-three/fiber` version 8.
+
+Depending on your needs you might consider installing the following additional packages:
+```
 // three js
 npm i three
 
-// react three fiber
-npm i @react-three/fiber
+// drei 
+npm i @react-three/drei
 
-// comlink
+// comlink - if using web workers
 npm i comlink
 ```
-
+Note that if using React 18, you need `@react-three/drei` version 9.
 
 ## Configure
 Rendering complex scenes in the browser (single threaded) can quickly become bottlenecked, degrading user experience. For this reason, most of the components have been decoupled from data management and processing, by depending on a _store interface_ and _generator_ functions. This allows the heavy work to be offloaded to web workers (but not required).

documents/getting-started.md

@@ -2,22 +2,23 @@
 
 ## Creating a React app
 
-First, we need a basic React web application running. At the time being this must be React v18 due to missing support for v19 in peer dependencies.
-
-To create a new React v18 app, you can use Next.js:
+First, we need a basic React web application running. Quickest and easiest way to do so it to use Vite:
 
 ```
-npx create-next-app@14
+npm create vite@latest my-app --template react
+cd my-app
+npm install
+npm run dev
 ```
 
-Please note that we have to use next version 14 for react v18!
+Note that we need react v18 or later, and typescript is recommended.
 
 ## Installing peer dependencies
 
-Besides React, we will also need threejs, react three fiber and comlink:
+Besides React, we will also need to install react three fiber:
 
 ```
-npm install three @react-three/fiber comlink
+npm install three @react-three/fiber
 ```
 
 ## Make a simple 3d scene
@@ -27,8 +28,6 @@ Before adding the `videx-3d` components library we should create a basic 3d scen
 In this example, we will be using typescript. We start by creating a new file for a component named "Test.tsx":
 
 ```tsx
-'use client' // <-- if using next
-
 // Test.tsx
 import { Canvas } from '@react-three/fiber'
 
@@ -47,10 +46,10 @@ export const Test = () => {
 Then import this file and render the Scene component in your app:
 
 ```tsx
-// page.tsx
+// App.tsx
 import { Test } from './Test'
 
-export default function Home() {
+export default function App() {
   return (
     <div style={{ width: `100vw`, height: `100vh` }}>
       <Test />
@@ -308,10 +307,8 @@ We return a mesh element, this time passing the generated geometry as a prop to
 Let's replace the cubes from our earlier example with the new Tube component:
 
 ```tsx
-'use client' // <-- if using next
 
 // Test.tsx
-
 import { CameraControls } from '@react-three/drei'
 import { Canvas } from '@react-three/fiber'
 import { Tube } from './Tube'