node-primitive

A port of primitive.js (primitive.lol) for Node.js thanks to the amazing jsdom library.

This library allow you to create an SVG representation of a given image using primitives.

Original PNG:329KB -> SVG(100 primitives):5KB -> SVG(10 primitives + blur): 600B

I don't like to install anything except nvm on my node projects. So I adapted primitive.js to work with Node.js in order to avoid having to install GO when using sqip.

Quick start

const { generateSVG } = require("./../src/api");
const { Triangle } = require("./../src/shape");

const cfg = {
  alpha: 0.5,
  computeSize: 256,
  fill: "rgb(244, 244, 244)",
  height: 256,
  mutateAlpha: true,
  mutations: 30,
  scale: 2,
  shapeTypes: [Triangle],
  shapes: 20,
  steps: 20,
  viewSize: 512,
  width: 256,
  blur: 35
};

const SVGString = await generateSVG("samples/profile.png", cfg);
// or
await generateSVG("samples/profile.png", cfg, "output.svg");

Warning

This script is really slow.

Running tests

Just run

yarn
jest

Debugging

You can use the env var "DEBUG" to display debug informations with the prefix "node-internal".

The "verbose" level will display stats about the generated file.

DEBUG=node-primitive:verbose jest

The "internal" level can be used to debug the library.

DEBUG=node-primitive:internal jest

Todo

• Check why onStep is removed the result is bad
• Remove promises, switch to await
• Fix the exports to use default exports when only one function/class is exposed

Thanks

Thanks to José M. Pérez to have open my eyes on image placeholder generation.

References

• primitive.js
• Testing primitive.js live
• SQIP