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ripl
Ripl provides a unified, cross-platform API for 2D and 3D graphics rendering with a focus on high performance and interactive data visualization. Write once, render to Canvas, SVG, WebGPU, or the terminal - in the browser, on the server, or in a headless environment.
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What it is
Ripl provides a unified, cross-platform API for 2D and 3D graphics rendering with a focus on high performance and interactive data visualization. Write once, render to Canvas, SVG, WebGPU, or the terminal - in the browser, on the server, or in a headless environment.
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What Hacker News says
2 sourcesShow HN: A JavaScript library for data visualization in both SVG and Canvas
Here's a project I've been working on for a little while now. Ripl is a JS library that provides a unified API for rendering shapes on both canvas and SVG interchangeably. Over the years I've used D3 extensively to create data visualisations so I figured I'd have a go at making my own version with a slightly more modern API and stricter TypeScript support.
I am aware there are already libraries that can draw to multiple contexts interchangeably, but I've added a few little niceties to Ripl that (as far as I know) some other libraries don't have such as CSS-like query selectors, DOM-like event bubbling, and keyframe animation support.
The project is far from done and not published to NPM yet, but there are a few demos and source that you can look at in the repo.
I'm happy with how it has come along and the things I've learnt along the way,
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especially the math. My dream would be to one day work on this full-time and build out a full data-viz library.