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24 alternatives to Canvas engines performance comparison – PixiJS, Two.js, and Paper.js
Render multiple moving rectangles to compare a number of canvas engines.
This is a performance comparison tool for three JavaScript canvas rendering engines: PixiJS, Two.js, and Paper.js. It benchmarks these libraries to help developers evaluate which engine best suits their project needs.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Canvas engines performance comparison – PixiJS, Two.js, and Paper.js launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Pixi.js▲75Fast lightweight 2D library that works across all devices
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pts is a javascript library for visualization and creative-coding.
2018 · ptsjs.org · its alternatives →
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A fast, multipurpose and lightweight JavaScript animation library
2016 · anime-js.com · its alternatives →
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Responsive HTML5 charts with 10x performance
2017 · canvasjs.com · its alternatives →
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Velocity.js: An incredibly fast animation engine for motion designers.
2014 · velocityjs.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We're Ben and Izak, founders of Repaint (YC S23). Repaint is like Figma, but for creating real websites. It has panning, zooming, and dragging elements around. The settings closely follow html/css. We think an open canvas is a big improvement over other website builders. Everything is easier: styling, consistency, responsiveness… But making it work was hard! We thought HN would appreciate the tech behind it: - A custom WebGL rendering engine (w/text, shadows, blurs, gradients, & opacity groups) - A partial implementation of the css spec - A custom text editor & text shaper…
2024 · repaint.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! 2d spritesheets for game development are often distributed as a PNG image, sometimes with a separate JSON or XML metadata document describing the layout, including any animation sequences within the sheet. Sometimes there is no metadata document and you have to work it out and manually write custom code to chop up the spritesheet and reference the sprites you want. I think it would be good if it became standard practice to distribute spritesheet PNGs with the metadata inline inside a PNG "chunk" so the whole thing is self-contained. That way artists can just distribute one file, and…
2019 · mccormick.cx · its alternatives →
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2016 · omrelli.ug · its alternatives →
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Faster user-land reimplementations for several common builtin native JavaScript functions. - codemix/fast.js
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A multi-threaded, GPU-powered, 2D vector graphics environment for Node.js - samizdatco/skia-canvas
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A JavaScript library for programming graphic design systems with SVG
2015 · runemadsen.github.io · its alternatives →
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Blotter.js▲243A JavaScript API for unconventional text effects on the web.
2018 · blotter.js.org · its alternatives →
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AnyPixels.js▲198A web-friendly way for anyone to build unusual displays
2016 · googlecreativelab.github.io · its alternatives →
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A chrome extension tracks front-end JavaScript that uses DOM / jQuery APIs to manipulate html dom elements (e.g., change style, attach event listener) at runtime. - pilagod/js-tracker
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · vivekseth.com · its alternatives →
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Image comparison component leveraging native HTML range input and a few lines of JavaScript.
2025 · muffinman.io · its alternatives →
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