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2 | 20 | |
3 | 4,643 | |
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9.7 | 10.0 | |
6 days ago | 1 day ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
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...
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Learn SVG with 25 examples – How to code images in HTML
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
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Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
To reply mostly with my WPT Core Team hat off, mostly summarising the history of how we've ended up here:
A build script used by significant swaths of the test suite is almost certainly out; it turns out people like being able to edit the tests they're actually running. (We _do_ have some build scripts — but they're mostly just mechanically generating lots of similar tests.
A lot of the goal of WPT (and the HTML Test Suite, which it effectively grew out of) has been to have a test suite that browsers are actually running in CI: historically, most standards test suites haven't been particularly amenable to automation (often a lot of, or exclusively, manual tests, little concern for flakiness, etc.), and with a lot of policy choices that effectively made browser vendors choose to write tests for themselves and not add new tests to the shared test suite: if you make it notably harder to write tests for the shared test suite, most engineers at a given vendor are simply going to not bother.
As such, there's a lot of hesitancy towards anything that regresses the developer experience for browser engineers (and realistically, browser engineers, by virtue of sheer number, are the ones who are writing the most tests for web technologies).
That said, there are probably ways we could make things better: a decent number of tests for things like Grid use check-layout-th.js (e.g., https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/f763dd7d7b7ed...).
One could definitely imagine a world in which these are a test type of their own, and the test logic (in check-layout-th.js) can be rewritten in a custom test harness to do the same comparisons in an implementation without any JS support.
The other challenge for things like Taffy only targeting flexbox and grid is we're unlikely to add any easy way to distinguish tests which are testing interactions with other layout features (`position: absolute` comes to mind!).
My suggestion would probably be to start with an issue at https://github.com/web-platform-tests/rfcs/issues, describing the rough constraints, and potentially with one or two possible solutions.
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The Ladybird Browser Project
It also helps that there are tests
https://web-platform-tests.org/
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Making Web Component properties behave closer to the platform
You can see how Mozilla tests the compliance of their built-in elements in the Gecko repository (the ok and is assertions are defined in their SimpleTest testing framework). And here's the Web Platform Tests' reflection harness, with data for each built-in element in sibling files, that almost every browser pass.
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We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
We have our own test suite (orginally derived from the test suite of Meta's Yoga layout library [0]) which consists of text fixtures that are small HTML snippets [1] and a test harness [2] that turns those into runnable tests, utilising headless chrome both to parse the HTML and to generate the assertions based on the layout that Chrome renders (so we are effectively comparing our implementation against Chrome). We currently have 686 generated tests (covering both Flexbox and CSS Grid).
We would like to utilise the Web Platform Test suite [3], however these are not in a standard format and many of the tests require JavaScript so we are not currently able to do that.
[0]: https://github.com/facebook/yoga
[1]: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy/tree/main/test_fixtures
[2]: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy/tree/main/scripts/gentes...
[3]: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/master/css/cs...
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What new CSS and JavaScript features can we expect soon? Or is it all unexpected?
The metrics are based on the passing rate for the web-platform-tests (WPT) project, the automated test suite for web standards. The completion rate is categorised as either stable, or experimental. There is no definition of what experimental entails, presumably features that are behind experimental flags are included. Stable is better to go off in any case.
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[AskJS] MSE quality resources
Depends on what you are trying to achieve. You can run WPT MSE https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/master/media-source and WebCodecs https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/master/webcodecs tests manually to learn by doing.
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Rookie question: How do I know I am making progress with my JS learning?
Manually running the tests in Web Platform Tests should keep you busy.
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Browsers Running Old JS Engines
Not sure what you mean? I referred to Web API's, which generally means Web platform API's; that is Web platform API's tested by Web Platform Tests https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt.
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State of CSS
If you want CSS to be the same across browsers then help implement CSS tests and file bugs
https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/Overview.en.html
https://web-platform-tests.org/
better specs are great, but tests will actually find the edge cases and lead to more convergence.
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How do I go about learning advanced DOM manipulation with vanilla JS?
Run all these tests locally https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/master/dom.
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linkedom - A triple-linked lists based DOM implementation.
caniuse - Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com
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ioccc - My IOCCC submissions and practice.
WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
webview_deno - 🌐 Deno bindings for webview, a tiny library for creating web-based desktop GUIs
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