PureImage

PureImage is a pure 100% JavaScript implementation of the HTML Canvas 2d drawing API for NodeJS. It has no native dependencies. You can use it to resize images, draw text into images, render badges, convert to grayscale, or anything else you could do with the standard Canvas 2D api.

note: PureImage values portability and simplicity of implementation over speed. If you need maximum performance you should use a different library backed by native code, such as Node-Canvas

New 0.3.x release

After a long lull, I've ported the code to modern ES6 modules, so you can just do an import pureimage from 'pureimage' like any other proper modern module. If you are using require('pureimage') it should just work thanks to the dist/pureimage-umd.cjs file built with Rollup. It also has a stub to let pureimage run in the browser and delegate to the real HTML canvas. This helps with isomorphic apps.

Other updates include

Switch to MochaJS for the unit tests.
add more unit tests.
support drawing images when using transforms
implement rect()
implement ImageData with getImageData() and putImageData()
fix gradient fill
add all CSS named colors
support #rgb, #rgba, and #rrggbbaa color strings
applied more bug fixes from PRs, thanks to our contributors.

New 0.1.x release

I've completely refactored the code so that it should be easier to maintain and implement new features. For the most part there are no API changes (since the API is defined by the HTML Canvas spec), but if you were using the font or image loading extensions you will need to use the new function names and switch to promises. For more information, please see the API docs

I'm also using Node buffers instead of arrays internally, so you can work with large images faster than before. Rich text is no longer supported, which is fine because it never really worked anyway. We'll have to find a different way to do it.

I've tried to maintain all of the patches that have been sent in, but if you contributed a patch please check that it still works. Thank you all! - josh

supported Canvas Features

set pixels
stroke and fill paths (rectangles, lines, quadratic curves, bezier curves, arcs/circles)
copy and scale images (nearest neighbor)
import and export JPG and PNG from streams using promises
render basic text (no bold or italics yet)
anti-aliased strokes and fills
transforms
standard globalAlpha and rgba() alpha compositing
clip shapes

On the roadmap, but still missing

gradients fills
image fills
blend modes besides SRC OVER
smooth clip shapes
bold/italic fonts
smooth image interpolation

Why?

The are more than enough drawing APIs out there. Why do we need another? My personal hatred of C/C++ compilers is widely known. The popular Node modules Canvas.js does a great job, but it's backed by Cairo, a C/C++ layer. I hate having native dependencies in Node modules. They often don't compile, or break after a system update. They often don't support non-X86 architectures (like the Raspberry Pi). You have to have a compiler already installed to use them, along with any other native dependencies pre-installed (like Cairo).

So, I made PureImage. It's goal is to implement the HTML Canvas spec in a headless Node buffer. No browser or window required.

PureImage is meant to be a small and maintainable Canvas library. It is not meant to be fast. If there are two choices of algorithm we will take the one with the simplest implementation, and preferably the fewest lines. We avoid special cases and optimizations to keep the code simple and maintainable. It should run everywhere and be always produce the same output. But it will not be fast. If you need speed go use something else.

PureImage uses only pure JS dependencies. OpenType for font parsing, PngJS for PNG import/export, and jpeg-js for JPG import/export.

Documentation

Documentation can now be found at: http://joshmarinacci.github.io/node-pureimage

Examples

Make a new empty image, 100px by 50px. Automatically filled with 100% opaque black.

var PImage = require('pureimage');
var img1 = PImage.make(100,50);

Fill with a red rectangle with 50% opacity

var ctx = img1.getContext('2d');
ctx.fillStyle = 'rgba(255,0,0, 0.5)';
ctx.fillRect(0,0,100,100);

Fill a green circle with a radius of 40 pixels in the middle of a 100px square black image.

var img = PImage.make(100,100);
var ctx = img.getContext('2d');
ctx.fillStyle = '#00ff00';
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(50,50,40,0,Math.PI*2,true); // Outer circle
ctx.closePath();
ctx.fill();

Draw the string 'ABC' in white in the font 'Source Sans Pro', loaded from disk, at a size of 48 points.

test('font test', (t) => {
    var fnt = PImage.registerFont('test/fonts/SourceSansPro-Regular.ttf','Source Sans Pro');
    fnt.load(() => {
        var img = PImage.make(200,200);
        var ctx = img.getContext('2d');
        ctx.fillStyle = '#ffffff';
        ctx.font = "48pt 'Source Sans Pro'";
        ctx.fillText("ABC", 80, 80);
    });
});

Write out to a PNG file

PImage.encodePNGToStream(img1, fs.createWriteStream('out.png')).then(() => {
    console.log("wrote out the png file to out.png");
}).catch((e)=>{
    console.log("there was an error writing");
});

Read a jpeg, resize it, then save it out

PImage.decodeJPEGFromStream(fs.createReadStream("test/images/bird.jpg")).then((img) => {
    console.log("size is",img.width,img.height);
    var img2 = PImage.make(50,50);
    var c = img2.getContext('2d');
    c.drawImage(img,
        0, 0, img.width, img.height, // source dimensions
        0, 0, 50, 50                 // destination dimensions
    );
    var pth = path.join(BUILD_DIR,"resized_bird.jpg");
    PImage.encodeJPEGToStream(img2,fs.createWriteStream(pth), 50).then(() => {
        console.log("done writing");
    });
});

Thanks!

Thanks to Nodebox / EMRG for opentype.js

Thanks to Rosetta Code for Bresenham's in JS

Thanks to Kuba Niegowski for PngJS

Thanks to Eugene Ware for jpeg-js

Thanks for patches from:

Dan danielbarela
Eugene Kulabuhov ekulabuhov
Lethexa lethexa
The Louie the-louie
Jan Marsch kekscom

bilibiliou/node-pureimage