native-canvas

Overview

The purpose and intent of this project was to create a library that allows for developers to create a browser canvas element that runs natively, without the need of a WebBrowser. Allowing for developers to code and develop portable canvas based applications that can run both on the WebBrowser and natively on any NodeJS platform.

Requirements

• NodeJS 10+

Getting Stated

• Install the native-canvas library

npm install native-canvas

A Simple Example

// Load the library
require('native-canvas');
 
// Use the globally exposed canvas
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
 
ctx.lineWidth = 1;
ctx.fillStyle = "#FF0000";
ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 150, 75);

View the samples directory to see more examples.

Running a Browser Example

// Load the library
require('native-canvas');
 
// Title the title attribute
document.title = 'Create Canvas with Document';
 
// Provides the current running canvas
const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
 
canvas.height = 150;
 
ctx.lineWidth = 1;
 
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, 400, 400);
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(40, 40, 40, 0, 2 * Math.PI);
ctx.closePath();
ctx.stroke();

Raspberry Pi

To install on Raspberry Pi, you need to prep your environment by installing a few dev libraries.

sudo apt install \
  libpixman-1-dev \
  libcairo2-dev \
  libpango1.0-dev \
  libjpeg-dev \
  libgif-dev \
  libsdl2-dev

Screenshots

Acknowledgments

Special Thanks to @dmcquillan314 for the support!