@yowasp/wavedrom NPM

YoWASP WaveDrom package

This package provides a self-contained WaveDrom renderer for JavaScript and Python applications. See the overview of the YoWASP project for details.

Command-line tool

This package installs a command-line tool yowasp-wavedrom.

Usage: yowasp-wavedrom [<input.json>] [<output.svg>]

API reference (JavaScript)

The @yowasp/wavedrom package has one entry point, render(source): string. It accepts a JavaScript object in the WaveJSON format and returns an SVG image serialized as a string:

import { render } from '@yowasp/wavedrom';

console.log(render({signal: [{ name: "clk", wave: "p..." }, { name: "data", wave: "01.0" }]}));
// => <svg.../svg>

API reference (Python)

The yowasp-wavedrom package has one entry point, render(source) -> str. It accepts a Python dictionary in the WaveJSON format and returns an SVG image serialized as a string:

from yowasp_wavedrom import render

print(render({"signal": [{ "name": "clk", "wave": "p..." }, { "name": "data", "wave": "01.0" }]}))
# => <svg.../svg>

Implementation notes

This package embeds the upstream WaveDrom library bundled with the minimal amount of dependencies necessary to produce a serialized SVG, and, for the Python package, with a JavaScript runtime. In addition, the output is post-processed compared to the upstream library as follows:

The id attribute of the root <svg> element is removed.
The stylesheets are altered to take into account dark color scheme preference via media queries. If the user agent reports dark color scheme preference, the colors in the diagram are inverted.
- In case of the dark waveform diagram skin, this will cause it to use light colors.
- When the SVG image is embedded in an HTML document using the <img> tag, the color scheme preference can be set per-image using a CSS rule such as img { color-scheme: light; }. This can be used to make the images responsive to dynamic theming, or simply to override the default behavior.
Several otherwise blocking bugs are worked around.

Updates

Unlike most YoWASP packages, this package does not automatically track upstream releases. Please open a pull request bumping the version of wavedrom in package-in.json if you need a feature from a newer version of WaveDrom.