Life & fun · September 2, 2019
Scrawl-canvas JavaScript rewrite progress report with interactive demos
Scrawl-canvas JavaScript rewrite progress report with interactive demos launched on September 2, 2019 with 5 votes, #1,275 of 3,296 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
What it does
For summer of 2019 I decided to recode my HTML5 <canvas> element library - Scrawl-canvas - from scratch, bringing it up-to-date with current JavaScript standards such as modules, promises, web workers and the like. It also gave me an opportunity to redesign the library's internal structures and clean up what was becoming quite a messy code base. I've included the roadmap for this work at the bottom of this page. As can be seen, I have not yet completed the work (the new version 8 remains in alpha) but I've done enough to feel happy about showing the world my progress to date. The links below are to my working demos - I use demos as my testing environment, rather than use more traditional…from scrawl-v8-progress-0919.rikworks.co.uk
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