@xterm/addon-canvas
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An addon for [xterm.js](https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js) that enables a canvas-based renderer using a 2d context to draw. This addon requires xterm.js v5+.
An addon for xterm.js that enables a canvas-based renderer using a 2d context to draw. This addon requires xterm.js v5+.
The purpose of this addon is to be used as a fallback for the webgl addon when better performance is desired over the default DOM renderer, but WebGL2 isn't supported or performant for some reason.
npm install --save @xterm/addon-canvas
import { Terminal } from '@xterm/xterm';
import { CanvasAddon } from '@xterm/addon-canvas';
const terminal = new Terminal();
terminal.open(element);
terminal.loadAddon(new CanvasAddon());
See the full API for more advanced usage.
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An addon for [xterm.js](https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js) that enables a canvas-based renderer using a 2d context to draw. This addon requires xterm.js v5+.
The npm package @xterm/addon-canvas receives a total of 15,084 weekly downloads. As such, @xterm/addon-canvas popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @xterm/addon-canvas demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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