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• node-canvas registerFont() windows solution - custom fonts loading to canvas
  1 project | dev.to | 26 Sep 2025

  There is a known issue since v2.10.2 ,the registerFont() is not working in windows.

• Skia Canvas: Browser-Less Implementation of the HTML Canvas Drawing API for Node
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2024

  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

• 2024 Web Development Wish List
  7 projects | dev.to | 10 Jan 2024

  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.

• Skinny legend (2017 - 2023)
  2 projects | /r/h3h3productions | 31 May 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:

• ECharts for Python
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2023

  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

• Unify Protect Homebridge Plugin
  1 project | /r/homelab | 8 Jan 2023

  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

• Social Media Cards with @vercel/og
  6 projects | dev.to | 9 Dec 2022

  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.

• Is there a simple way to draw a box on a JPG?
  1 project | /r/node | 18 Sep 2022

  Never used it but probably this: https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas

• Lambda keeps consuming more and more memory until it kills it self
  2 projects | /r/aws | 9 Aug 2022

  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.

• best way to generate image on server
  2 projects | /r/webdev | 3 Aug 2022

  Some popular Node.js libraries for manipulating images are node-canvas and sharp.

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