Official examples

Examples are version-matched recipes to adapt, not modules to import. When the Engine ships a script for the behaviour, use reuse-scripts first.

Find the example

If node_modules/playcanvas/examples/src/examples exists, it is a linked or source checkout: read it locally. The npm package omits examples/, so otherwise fetch from the installed tag:

TAG="v$(node -p "JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync('node_modules/playcanvas/package.json')).version")" || exit 1
gh api "repos/playcanvas/engine/git/trees/$TAG?recursive=1" | grep -o '"examples/src/examples/[^"]*\.example\.mjs"'
gh api "repos/playcanvas/engine/contents/examples/src/examples/<category>/<name>.example.mjs?ref=$TAG" \
  --jq .content | base64 --decode

Read the resolved package, not the dependency list; playcanvas is often transitive. An empty list means an invalid tag: stop rather than guess. Use main only when the version has no tag.