Top 4 JavaScript mspaint Projects

jspaint

79 7,103 9.5 JavaScript

🎨 Classic MS Paint, ＲＥＶＩＶＥＤ + ✨Extras

Project mention: Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-25

This is by the same person who made jspaint. https://github.com/1j01/jspaint Some of the other projects by the author are also very interesting https://github.com/1j01?tab=repositories&q=&type=&language=&...
There is this pipes screen saver for example https://1j01.github.io/pipes/

kidpix

59 463 0.0 JavaScript

JSKIDPIX v1.0.2021

Project mention: Ideas for using a Raspberry Pi 5 with a 4 yr old girl | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-07

KidPix. Drawing is stimulating for the mind. Of course now it can be run in the browser: https://kidpix.app/

SurveyJS

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Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
kiddopaint

1 205 3.5 JavaScript

Kiddo Paint
jspaint.exe

7 125 0.0 JavaScript

🌂JS Paint ~~ as a cross-platform native desktop app. In other words, the "🎨 Classic MS Paint, ＲＥＶＩＶＥＤ + ✨Extras".exe hehe

Project mention: Use any web browser as GUI, with Zig in the back end and HTML5 in the front end | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-01

This is very polished and cool looking. Inspiring. I find this project's level of polish very inspiring.
It's lovely to see someone has captured this idea and expressed it in the right way to make it interesting to many people. I really hope this mode of desktop apps can take off, at least to the level where the community has something to explore for a while to see if it works. I made something like this for Chrome browsers a while ago, nodejs backends, vanilla front-ends, built-in packaging using pkg. It's just a nice approach: https://github.com/dosyago/graderjs
And I made a demo using the venerable MS Paint clone JS Paint^0. The dev experience was great, I literally just dropped in the front-end code to the right folder, compiled it and wham, "desktop JS paint" on 3 platforms, haha.
Using the ubiquitous local browser as the rendering / API engine for desktop just seems smart. And it's technically interesting, because you get to think in terms of how can you step back from the browser, the platform, the front-end and the back-end and come up with a general API that addresses all of it, which is kinda cool.
0: https://github.com/00000o1/jspaint.exe

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