Skia
Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images. (by google)
canvas
High performance skia binding to Node.js. Zero system dependencies and pure npm packages without any postinstall scripts nor node-gyp. (by Brooooooklyn)
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| Skia | canvas | |
|---|---|---|
| 55 | 7 | |
| 8,614 | 1,589 | |
| 2.2% | - | |
| 9.9 | 8.6 | |
| 5 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C++ | Rust | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Skia
Posts with mentions or reviews of Skia.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-21.
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Skia VS nitro-gl - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 21 Aug 2023
- The Future of the Web Is VNC
- Cairo – Open-Source 2D Graphics Layer/API with Fonts and Many Back-Ends
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Lottie under the hood
Actually, that's not entirely accurate. The lottie-web library itself doesn't support rendering to WebGL. However, there is a package called canvaskit-wasm that wraps Skia (a graphics engine) with WebAssembly (wasm). This package includes a module called skottie which supports rendering animations into a WebGL surface. However, there is a drawback with this approach: using wasm requires loading a relatively large package, and it's uncertain whether all features are supported correctly, as the official compatibility table that tracks lottie support on different platforms does not include skottie.
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Widely-used graphics library
Skia is pretty great if you can get it running.
- Vivaldi 6.0 Web Browser Introduces Tab Workspaces and Custom Icons
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Due to popular demand, here’s part 2
The imgs are mainly used by Tencent QQ and Baidu Tieba users. QQ and Tieba compress imgs by default, so the popular imgs (in China we call them "屌图" or "表情包") would be compressed million of times during the spreading, causing the super low quality. These APPs on Android are using Skia for image processing, which suffering from a legendary bug: result would be more green. The bug was fixed in 2016: https://github.com/google/skia/commit/c7d01d3e1d3621907c27b283fb7f8b6e177c629d
- Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
- How important is avoiding Blink/Chromium to you? And if not at all, why?
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Graphic Library for C
There’s also Skia by Google. Used by Android and Google Chrome.
canvas
Posts with mentions or reviews of canvas.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-01.
- Skr-canvas – No system dependencies, no postinstall scripts
- skr-canvas 0.1 released, drop in replacement for node-canvas. 0 system dependencies! 0 post install scripts! Support all active Node.js versions!
- skr-canvas now has out of box support for `node:lts-alpine` on both x64 and arm64! Just try it out by: `docker run --rm -it node:lts-alpine sh` and `yarn add @napi-rs/canvas`
- Just published @napi-rs/canvas v0.0.4. Support full featured PathKit functions, and text rendering/metrics will be released soon.
- Another skia binding just for building node-canvas alternative
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Out of box canvas implementation by napi-rs and skia, zero system dependency, and no postinstall scripts. We are very close to complete its functionality, just try it with npm install @napi-rs/canvas
The goal of this project is to implement a superset of node-canvas with better performance in most scenarios. For now, Image decode/encode is partially supported, including png/jpeg/webp. Text rendering and text metrics is on the way, we have issue to track the progress https://github.com/Brooooooklyn/canvas/issues/156
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Skia and canvas you can also consider the following projects:
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
napi-rs - A framework for building compiled Node.js add-ons in Rust via Node-API
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.
node-canvas - Node canvas is a Cairo backed Canvas implementation for NodeJS.
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
rust-skia - Rust Bindings for the Skia Graphics Library
Atomic Game Engine - The Atomic Game Engine is a multi-platform 2D and 3D engine with a consistent API in C++, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript
minesweeper - Minesweeper game developed with Rust, WebAssembly (Wasm), and Canvas
Ogre 3D - scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine (C++, Python, C#, Java)
ux-animate - A simple but powerful tweening, spring physics, animation library for Rust
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
node-rs - Node.js bindings ❤️ Rust crates