# Canvas Layer for AWS Lambda

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[lambda-layer-canvas-nodejs](https://github.com/charoitel/lambda-layer-canvas-nodejs) published on [AWS Serverless Application Repository](https://serverlessrepo.aws.amazon.com/applications/arn:aws:serverlessrepo:us-east-1:990551184979:applications~lambda-layer-canvas-nodejs) packages node-canvas and its dependencies as AWS Lambda Layer.

## About node-canvas

[node-canvas](https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas) is a Cairo backed Canvas implementation for Node.js. It implements the [Mozilla Web Canvas API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API) as closely as possible. For the current API compliance, please check [Compatibility Status](https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/wiki/Compatibility-Status).

## How this layer is built?

The Lambda Layer is built from source of node-canvas npm package on EC2 instance, with following native dependencies installed. Please check ``` build-layer.sh ``` for details.

```bash
gcc-c++ cairo-devel pango-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel giflib-devel librsvg2-devel pango-devel bzip2-devel
```

Since AWS Lambda is a secure and isolated runtime and execution environment, this layer aims to target AWS Lambda compatible build. As there are canvas libraries and frameworks relying on node-canvas running on Node.js runtime, this layer also tries to include and support these libraries and frameworks.

### Fabric.js support

[Fabric.js](https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js) is a framework that makes it easy to work with HTML5 canvas element. It is an interactive object model on top of canvas element. It is also an SVG-to-canvas (and canvas-to-SVG) parser.

### Konva support

[Konva](https://github.com/konvajs/konva) is a framework that enables high performance animations, transitions, node nesting, layering, filtering, caching, event handling for desktop and mobile applications, and much more.

> **Note:** From Canvas Layer v2.9.3 release, since konva-node package is deprecated, konva package is used directly through build script.

## Getting started

To get started, please visit https://github.com/charoitel/lambda-layer-canvas-nodejs/wiki/Getting-Started

Made with ❤️ by Charoite Lee and contributors. Available on the [AWS Serverless Application Repository](https://aws.amazon.com/serverless)
