Rune.js
Languages and libraries
graphics library
SHOW HN2015
92points
17comments
#281of 2,565 in 2015
Top 11%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive, well-documented open source work
From 3 comments
The author actually goes into detail about why they created this project on the about page: https://runemadsen.github.io/rune.js/about.html On a side note, regardless of the…
unfortunateface on HNgreat work there.
kyriakos on HNI love it!
hundunpao on HN
Objections
Unclear what it adds beyond plain SVG or D3
From 2 comments
The examples are horribly broken in Safari. Anyway, echoing andrewray, what’s the point of this? It seems no easier than just working with SVG directly. It’s considerably less…
jacobolus on HNI wasn’t and still am not trying to be rude – it looks like a neat class, the pages at http://printingcode.runemadsen.com/lecture-intro/ are filled with lovely examples, it’s…
jacobolus on HN
Examples broken in Safari
From 1 comment
The examples are horribly broken in Safari. Anyway, echoing andrewray, what’s the point of this? It seems no easier than just working with SVG directly. It’s considerably less…
jacobolus on HN
No boolean path operations
From 2 comments
I want an API where I can intersect or combine paths, and be able to read out the resulting paths.
amelius on HNYou might be interested in paper.js: http://paperjs.org/ which is an evolution of Scriptographer. It has full support for the usual add, subtract, difference sort of boolean…
beardicus on HN
Requests
Boolean shape operations on paths
From 2 comments
I want an API where I can intersect or combine paths, and be able to read out the resulting paths.
amelius on HNYou might be interested in paper.js: http://paperjs.org/ which is an evolution of Scriptographer. It has full support for the usual add, subtract, difference sort of boolean…
beardicus on HN
Text line wrapping
From 1 comment
This looks really interesting. Are you planning to do text as well? Specifically, text with line wrapping?
linqables on HN
Questions
How to modify existing SVG shapes with the library
From 1 comment
This seems to take the declarative nature of SVG and make it more imperative, like HTML5 Canvas, even though it ironically uses a virtual DOM implementation under the hood. For…
andrewray on HN
Whether other libraries do server-side SVG rendering
From 1 comment
The server side rendering looks really interesting (I've been getting into SVG for mobile web graphics). Are there other SVG libs that do server side rendering, or is this unique…
bigethan on HN
Alternatives named
paper.js
From 1 comment
You might be interested in paper.js: http://paperjs.org/ which is an evolution of Scriptographer. It has full support for the usual add, subtract, difference sort of boolean…
beardicus on HN
React ART
From 1 comment
It's a shame React Art isn't mentioned more (https://github.com/reactjs/react-art). I'm pretty happy with the results from it, and it's a bonus that it works on iOS as well as…
talldan on HN
D3
From 1 comment
The examples are horribly broken in Safari. Anyway, echoing andrewray, what’s the point of this? It seems no easier than just working with SVG directly. It’s considerably less…
jacobolus on HN