nodejs-canvas-partyparrot

node-canvas Example

Demo

This example is basically a fork of PPaaS with some minor changes. It shows how to use node-canvas with Now 2.0.

Upgrade to the latest version of node-canvas

canvas is a popular library which exposes the browser canvas API to NodeJS. The latest 2.0 version fixed a lot of issues, as well as prebuilds support, and it's even slimmer than 1.x.

The new APIs works perfectly with just a few small changes in ParrotFrameHandler.js.

Config @now/node-server

First we need to increase the max lambda size to 40mb cause it exceeds the default limit.

Also, PPaaS has "baseparrots" images which will be read at runtime. So these assets cannot be compiled and bundled by ncc. We need to disable the bundle option so all files will be copied to the right place.

In summary, the @now/node-server config looks like this:

{
  "src": "index.js",
  "use": "@now/node-server",
  "config": {
    "maxLambdaSize": "40mb",
    "bundle": false
  }
}

Use cache-control to avoid duplicated requests

With the ability to config custom routes and headers, you could simply add this route to your now.json:

{
  "src": "/(.+)",
  "dest": "index.js",
  "headers": {
    "cache-control": "public, max-age=31536000, immutable"
  }
}

Now it has built-in CDN and parrot memoization support!

Add a homepage

The last step is to add a homepage for /. Create an index.html file and add another static build to your now.json:

{
  "src": "index.html",
  "use": "@now/static"
}

And we are now ready to deploy the app:

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