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Prisma
Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB and CockroachDB
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Hasura
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
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SaaSHub
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Konva
Konva.js is an HTML5 Canvas JavaScript framework that extends the 2d context by enabling canvas interactivity for desktop and mobile applications.
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face-api.js
JavaScript API for face detection and face recognition in the browser and nodejs with tensorflow.js
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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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jimp
An image processing library written entirely in JavaScript for Node, with zero external or native dependencies.
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SaaSHub
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Skia Canvas: Browser-Less Implementation of the HTML Canvas Drawing API for Node
If you're interested in node-compatible canvas implementations, there are several:
* canvaskit-wasm, from the skia project. I don't think it's gpu-accelerated: https://github.com/google/skia/tree/main/modules/canvaskit/n...
* @napi-rs/canvas. This is the fastest binding: https://github.com/Brooooooklyn/canvas?tab=readme-ov-file#pe...
* node-canvas. Uses Cairo instead of Skia: https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas
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2024 Web Development Wish List
Assuming SWR (stale while revalidate) is working, we could definitely use the ability to edit images in workers. We would need support for node canvas or something similar.
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Skinny legend (2017 - 2023)
So at this point, I have all the images and the data required to align the images. I used node-canvas to do that. So here's how I aligned the images:
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ECharts for Python
ECharts was originally a Baidu project, released under https://github.com/ecomfe/echarts (ecomfe = "E-commerce frontend"?). They still maintain some of the auxiliary libraries.
I've been using it since around ... 2018-ish[0]? ... as a replacement for Google Charts. It was my first time using a big library from one of the Chinese tech giants -- basic docs and tutorials in English, then all the advanced stuff (and comments) written in Chinese. I was impressed by how comprehensive the charts library was, and how they'd obviously invested a lot of brainwork into the configuration system. IMO it's one of the highest-quality data visualization libraries in JavaScript unless you're willing to dive deep into something like d3.js.
The blog post's author describes running echarts in a headless Chrome, though, which seems insane to me. It's JavaScript rendering to a -- can't it run in Node with https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas ?
[0] A small publicly-accessible example: https://john-millikin.com/reddit-front-page-2018#by-domain
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Unify Protect Homebridge Plugin
node-pre-gyp ERR! install response status 404 Not Found on https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/releases/download/v2.11.0/canvas-v2.11.0-node-v93-darwin-unknown-arm64.tar.gz
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Social Media Cards with @vercel/og
Another approach is it to create a background image and insert the texts and the metadata with a canvas library like node-canvas. This approach is very well described in this Learn With Jason episode. But with a canvas library we have to specify on which coordinates we want to render our texts and it does not wrap automatically if it becomes to long.
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Is there a simple way to draw a box on a JPG?
Never used it but probably this: https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas
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Lambda keeps consuming more and more memory until it kills it self
I found this issue: https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/issues/1974 and somebody commented with a link about node buffers. So I decided to test these parts.
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best way to generate image on server
Some popular Node.js libraries for manipulating images are node-canvas and sharp.
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BEGINNER PROJECT - How to parse a .txt and create .png files from each line?
node.js + imagemagick + node canvas + node canvas libraries (depends on your OS)
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