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    • fav icon for offscreen-canvas - npmoffscreen-canvas - npm
      06-07-2020
    • fav icon for canvas-webworker - npmcanvas-webworker - npm
      Pure JavaScript Canvas implimentation that can be used in WebWorkersWebWorkers are great when long scripts has to be excuted while the main program has to keep running (cannot be blocked). When a complex image has to be generated, for instance a large texture for a game, the generation can be blocking for the game. A solution would be to generate the texture in a WebWorker. Due to the fact that the HTMLCanvasElement cannot be accecssed in the WebWorker this is fairly difficult. Using this pure JavaScript a Canvas polyfill can be used. Drawing is not hardware accerated so it will be slower compaired to a regular canvas but the programm will remain non-blocking.
      06-07-2020