https://github.com/ifiokjr/canvist
a canvas based text editor written in rust
https://github.com/ifiokjr/canvist
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a canvas based text editor written in rust
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ifiokjr/canvist
- Owner: ifiokjr
- License: unlicense
- Created: 2023-02-11T06:16:05.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-02-11T06:19:35.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-14T10:57:22.696Z (5 months ago)
- Language: Nix
- Size: 12.7 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: readme.md
- License: license
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README
# cavnvist
> a canvas based text editor written in rust.
## Motivation
**Figma** and **Google Docs** manage to do this really well. It would be cool to build a wasm first implementation of rendering to the canvas which is fully open source.
- Convert document events to canvas actions
- Render to the canvas
- Use `yrs` for managing the editor state and supporting first class collaboration
- Support both a json data model and a binary data model
- Full accessibility support similar to Google Docs (via parallel hidden svg dom)
- Potentially render via `skia`
- Support server rendering (print canvas to image)
The canvas renderer should be an implementation detail, so that in the future we can rendering to non-web canvas.
**Non-goals:**
- Currently, size is not a concern as WASM builds tend to be larger.
## Contributing
[`devenv`](https://devenv.sh/) is used to provide a reproducible development environment for this
project. Follow the [getting started instructions](https://devenv.sh/getting-started/).
To automatically load the environment you should
[install direnv](https://devenv.sh/automatic-shell-activation/) and then load the `direnv`.
```bash
# The security mechanism didn't allow to load the `.envrc`.
# Since we trust it, let's allow it execution.
direnv allow .
```
At this point you should see the `nix` commands available in your terminal.
To setup recommended configuration for your favourite editor run the following commands.
```bash
setup:vscode # Setup vscode
setup:helix # Setup helix configuration
```