Can't be installed globally

[Timmmm]

Unfortunately if you try this via npm install --global it doesn't work because this fails:

  const excalidrawUtils = fs.readFileSync(
    "./node_modules/@excalidraw/utils/dist/excalidraw-utils.min.js",
    "utf8"
  );

I'm not sure the best solution to that to be honest.

[JRJurman]

Hmmmm, good catch... Yeah, this is because we're doing a relative reference for the dependency... I'll try to verify on my machine what the behavior is - can you confirm what OS you are using, version of npm, and if you are using a node manager (like nvm)?

[Timmmm]

Mac, can't remember the exact NPM version but a fairly recent one. Not using NVM.

Btw I made my own version after reading yours (thanks for doing the initial figuring out how to do it).

https://github.com/Timmmm/excalidraw_export

I think that one should work when globally installed - I just hackily bundled the Excalidraw JS into mine. I also added optional PDF export, some font workarounds and made the JSDom code way simpler.

Unfortunately you can't fully bundle it into a 0-dependency single JS file because JSDom's canvas is implemented using Cairo.