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canvas-empty-stub
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A lightweight, empty stub package designed to replace the canvas
dependency when it's not needed in your project.
The canvas-empty-stub
package serves as a drop-in replacement for the canvas
library in environments where canvas functionality is not used, but it 's required as a peer dependency.
By using this stub, you can avoid problems with building the canvas
package and also issues with canvas being required as a peer dependency.
You can install canvas-empty-stub
using npm:
npm install canvas@npm:canvas-empty-stub@^1.0.0
or yarn
yarn add canvas@npm:canvas-empty-stub@^1.0.0
You can replace the usage in the package.json with the following manually:
"dependencies": {
"canvas": "npm:canvas-empty-stub@^1.0.0"
}
FAQs
Empty stub to replace canvas with
We found that canvas-empty-stub demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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