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Pikt.js

A JavaScript library for Pikchr in the browser.

Usage

After installing the library using npm install @arnau/pikt you'll have two choices: a render function and a Web Component.

`render` function

render is an asynchronous function wrapping the C pikchr function. It expects a pikchr source and optionally some configuration and returns a SVG. For example, in the Deno repl you could:

import { render } from "pikt"

const source = `box "pikt"`
const result = await render(source)

Will render a SVG as follows

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="pikchr pikchr-render" viewBox="0 0 112.32 76.32">
<path d="M2,74L110,74L110,2L2,2Z" style="fill:none;stroke-width:2.16;stroke:rgb(0,0,0);"></path>
<text x="56" y="38" text-anchor="middle" fill="rgb(0,0,0)" dominant-baseline="central">pikt</text>
</svg>

Note: Using the node repl will require using dynamic imports and resolving an issue with __dirname:

const path = await import("path")
const __dirname = path.resolve()
const pikt = await import("./index.js")

await pikt.render(`box "foo"`)

If the process errors, for example due to a syntax mistake such as box "pikt (missing closing double quote), the result is the formatted error wrapped in a div:

<div><pre>
/*    1 */
/*    2 */
/*    3 */              box "pikt
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ERROR: unrecognized token
</pre></div>

The render function accepts an object as second parameter to configure Pikchr's behaviour. For example:

render(`box "pikt"`, { darkMode: true })

Will render the diagram with colours inverted for optimal display in dark backgrounds.

Configuration options

darkMode (boolean): If true, fill and stroke colours in the resulting SVG will be their inverse.
width, height (number): When provided, Pikchr will use them to set a fixed width and height for the svg element.
classes (string): The string is expected to be a valid space-separated list of class names. Defaults to pikchr pikchr-render.

`pikt-diagram` web component

definePiktDiagram defines a custom element wrapping the render function. By default it registers the custom element as pikt-diagram but it can be changed by passing a valid name to the function.

// index.js
import { defineCustomElements } from "pikt"

definePiktDiagram()

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <body>
    <pikt-diagram>
      <pre><code>
      box "pikt"
      </code></pre>
    </pikt-diagram>
  </body>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="index.js"></script>
</html>

Note that pikt-diagram expects the text inside the element to be valid pikchr markup. Any non-textual element is ignored. In the example above both pre and code don't affect the rendering of the resulting SVG but can help as fallback in case JavaScript is not executing properly.

Attributes

The only attribute accepted by pikt-diagram is mode with a value of:

light: Colours are untouched. Defaults are black for lines and text and transparent for backgrounds.
dark: Colours are inverted.
auto: Behaves like light or dark depending on the prefers-color-scheme value.

If mode is not provided it defaults to the light behaviour.

Changing the colour scheme

pikt-diagram will respect prefers-color-scheme when using mode=auto. This can be insufficient in situations where you want to let users control the scheme indepedently of their system preference.

The example shows a way to allow users to change the colour scheme using CSS filters.

In short, the idea is to add a class depending on prefers-user-color and use a few CSS rules as follow:

:root {
  --light-background-color: ivory;
  --light-foreground-color: #222;

  --dark-background-color: #333;
  --dark-foreground-color: lightgreen;
}

.dark-scheme {
  --background-color: var(--dark-background-color);
  --foreground-color: var(--dark-foreground-color);
}

.dark-scheme pikt-diagram:not([mode]) {
  filter: invert(100%);
}

In the example above, pikt-diagram has no mode attribute which defaults to light mode so, when prefers-user-scheme: dark is true, the class .dark-theme will be present and lines and text that by default are black will be rendered as white.

Licence

Arnau Siches under the MIT License.

The Pikchr source pikchr/pikchr.c and the WebAssembly version embedded in src/pikchr.js are licenced under the BSD Zero Clause License.

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