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fabric.js

Javascript Canvas Library, SVG-to-Canvas (& canvas-to-SVG) Parser

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What it is

Javascript Canvas Library, SVG-to-Canvas (& canvas-to-SVG) Parser

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2

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037·Jul 6, 2024

I have the Brother P-Touch CUBE PT-P300BT and “pwned” it (not really) some time ago. Using this code as a starting point [1], I set it up with a FastAPI backend serving an HTML+JS frontend on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. I connect to it using a browser, design the label, and it prints via Bluetooth. One of the first options I added to the interface is the “no feed” checkbox, which I use when I know I’ll print more than one label in sequence before cutting. My idea is to add another endpoint to the API so that using Whisper or Siri, I can say, “Print Eggs and today’s date” or “Print Coffee in medium size.” I use something similar with an Alfred workflow, but voice commands would be nice in the kitchen. I hate when someone talks about a project I’m interested in but doesn’t share any code. However, the entire thing is so ugly that I’ll never pe

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rmit any other human being to see it. I’ll incorporate a Dead Man’s switch to delete everything or burn the Raspberry Pi, if needed. Anyway, it’s all very simple once you realize that Fabric.js [2] handles 80% of the interface and functionalities on the frontend. Probably with Aider [3] and Claude Sonnet 3.5, you can make it during breakfast (or 7 years: I’m a dev, so I’m VERY bad at time estimations). [1] https://gist.github.com/vsigler/98eafaf8cdf2374669e590328164... [2] https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js/ [3] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

In Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop

jarek-foksa·Mar 12, 2024

For any non-trivial editor you will need an object model that abstracts away the low level drawing functions and manages state. I think fabric.js is worth checking as its source code is well organized and documented. It's not a small project though and the latest version was rewritten in TypeScript: https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js/tree/master

In Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

rikroots·Aug 29, 2022

I had to chuckle as I read the post. I, too, suffer from occasional bouts of jealousy when I see "competitor" JS canvas libraries get some sunshine and appreciation in various venues for features that I think (in my own very opinionated opinion, of course) my library does better[1]. But this state of affairs is, as other commenters have pointed out, entirely my fault. For a library or product to gain traction in the target market, it needs three things: easy access, awareness of its existence, and good support. For a library like mine, this boils down to the following: + Easy access - it's my responsibility to make the library easy for other developers to find (GitHub, website), add to their projects (npm/yarn, compatibility with bundlers, etc), use in their code (well documented API, TS support, etc), and cause them minimal problems with

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in the wider project (plays nicely with frameworks, doesn't destroy page efficiency, doesn't break the toolchain, etc). This is the work I enjoy and spend a lot of non-dev time doing. + Awareness of its existence - which is marketing. Either I have to spend a lot of time telling people about my library and (more importantly) telling them how my library solves their problems. Or I have to find "champions" - people who use, and like using, the library so much that they will go out and promote it for me. Or I can spend money on getting proper marketing help, adverts, etc ... which is not going to happen. + Good support - beyond documentation, I need to be willing to either spend time helping people resolve issues and misunderstandings they have with the library, or I need to build a community of people happy to help me do that work. Sadly I am not the sort of person who enjoys the high level of social engagement that's needed to build that community. So, yeah ... it is my fault that the competitors get the glory. But then again they deserve their place in the sunshine because they've done the work I've not been willing to engage with. As for the occasional bouts of jealousy? They remind me that I'm still human, that I still care. Which is a Good Thing! [1] I keep track of what the competitors are up to mainly by following their repos on GitHub. Most of the issues people raise seem to be about TypeScript errors and breaking updates. But sometimes I'll see someone ask for a feature they want added to a library, and I'll find myself thinking: "my library does that already!" and I'll get a little shiver of jealousy. Like this request for a "Transformation box for texts" made in the Fabric.js repo - https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js/issues/8195

In My Lack of Attention

lucideer·Mar 20, 2020

https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js

In Stanford CS248: Implement an SVG Rasterizer