glitter VS react-circle-of-fifths

I've used satori [0] on the backend with TypeScript/Deno to render JSX as an SVG (which is then rendered to a PNG).

Satori is meant for rendering Open Graph images (e.g. the little images that come up when you post a link on Twitter/Slack/Facebook), but I found that it works well for rendering arbitrary images. It supports a subset of modern CSS, including flexbox.

My use case is posting match reports for League of Legends into a Discord text channel, e.g. person X just played a match, here are their stats.

It's quite nice because there are almost zero server-side native dependencies (the one exception is the library to convert svg -> png requires some native libraries).

Here's what a match report looks like: [1]

Here's an example of what the JSX looks like: [2]

[0]: https://github.com/vercel/satori

[1]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/glitter/blob/main/assets/p...

[2]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/glitter/blob/main/packages...

Another way is to write HTML/CSS and use satori [0] to convert that to SVG. It's meant for Open Graph images (the images that show up when you link a site in Discord, Slack, Twitter, etc.), but it works quite well for anything.

This is obviously not as flexible as true SVG, but it is familiar to author for anyone who's written a React application. I've used it on the backend to generate match reports for League of Legends [1]

[0]: https://github.com/vercel/satori

[1]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/glitter-boys

This is really cool! SVG is such a neat and flexible format, I'll definitely be taking some time to work through these tutorials, as it's directly related to some side projects I have going.

Like some of the other commenters here, I've found a lot of fun in building React components that are backed by SVG. React and JSX make it easy to add the interaction, and SVG lets you do some pretty cool UIs that wouldn't be easily possible with just HTML.

I actually have published a React component that renders an interactive "Circle of Fifths," which I built for a music theory side project I was working on (although this project is currently languishing among many other half-baked repos). There's still a lot to do with the component, but it's in a usable state: https://github.com/epiccoleman/react-circle-of-fifths

I wrote what I think is probably my best blog post about the process of figuring out how to build the Circle of Fifths with SVG, if that sounds interesting: https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2023-04-05-svg-circle-of-fifth...

I'm currently building out a fretboard diagram generator using a very similar approach, and having that post on hand for reference has been pretty useful. This is maybe my favorite thing about writing up the stuff I work on, it's nice to be able to "replay" how I thought through a problem.

One of my big "side projects" over the last few months has been my personal website and blog (https://epiccoleman.com). It's not very interesting per se - I mean, who doesn't have a blog these days - but it has been really educational and fun to work on. It's a really simplistic stack which makes working on it pretty frictionless. I spent a lot of time tweaking the look and feel of the site and am pretty happy with how everything has turned out.

I've also been putting a lot of work into a React component that renders a nice looking SVG Circle of Fifths, and just recently got to a point where I felt I could call a release "1.0.0". This has also been a really educational project and I'm super proud of the component. It's a little basic right now, but it looks very nice, and I have a lot of cool features planned.

It's licensed MIT, so if this sounds like something you'd like to use in an app, you can check it out here: https://github.com/epiccoleman/react-circle-of-fifths. I'd love any feedback, issues, etc.

Morning all, this is a new post in my series covering the development of an SVG Circle of Fifths component for React. That component has just recently reached the point where I feel comfortable telling people to try it out and is MIT licensed - if you think you could use a nice looking Circle of Fifths in some musical application you're working on, check it out.

More than happy to accept feedback, PRs or issues on the repo, I've got a lot more stuff planned but the basic usability is there, I think!

https://github.com/epiccoleman/react-circle-of-fifths