pixmark

PixMark

A powerful, lightweight React component library for image annotation and markup. Built with TypeScript, PixMark provides an intuitive interface for displaying images with interactive bounding box annotations.

✨ Features

• 🖼️ Image Display: Load and display images from URLs with automatic dimension detection
• 📦 Bounding Box Annotations: Visualize annotations as interactive rectangles on images
• 🎯 Interactive Selection: Click to select/deselect annotations in the list
• 🎨 Customizable Styling: Support for custom colors and styling
• 📜 Virtualized List: Efficient rendering of large annotation lists using rc-virtual-list
• 🔍 Hover Effects: Visual feedback on hover for both image and list items
• 📱 Responsive Design: Flexible layout that adapts to container dimensions
• 🛠️ TypeScript Support: Full TypeScript definitions for better development experience

🚀 Installation

# Using npm
npm install pixmark

# Using yarn
yarn add pixmark

# Using pnpm
pnpm add pixmark

Peer Dependencies

Make sure you have React and React DOM installed:

npm install react react-dom

📖 Usage

Basic Example

import React from 'react';
import { PixMark } from 'pixmark';

const MyComponent = () => {
  const annotations = [
    {
      id: '1',
      text: 'Person',
      boundingBox: { x0: 100, y0: 50, x1: 200, y1: 150 },
      color: '#00ff00'
    },
    {
      id: '2',
      text: 'Car',
      boundingBox: { x0: 300, y0: 200, x1: 450, y1: 280 },
      color: '#ff0000'
    }
  ];

  return (
    <PixMark
      src="https://example.com/image.jpg"
      annotations={annotations}
    />
  );
};

export default MyComponent;

Advanced Usage with Custom Styling

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { PixMark } from 'pixmark';
import type { IAnnotation } from 'pixmark';

const AdvancedExample = () => {
  const [selectedAnnotations, setSelectedAnnotations] = useState<IAnnotation[]>([]);

  const annotations: IAnnotation[] = [
    {
      id: 'person-1',
      text: 'John Doe',
      boundingBox: { x0: 120, y0: 80, x1: 220, y1: 180 },
      color: '#00ff00'
    },
    {
      id: 'object-1',
      text: 'Laptop',
      boundingBox: { x0: 250, y0: 150, x1: 350, y1: 200 },
      color: '#0000ff'
    }
  ];

  const handleSelectionChange = (annotations: IAnnotation[]) => {
    setSelectedAnnotations(annotations);
    console.log('Selected annotations:', annotations);
  };

  return (
    <div style={{ width: '100%', height: '600px' }}>
      <PixMark
        src="https://example.com/my-image.jpg"
        annotations={annotations}
        onSelectionChange={handleSelectionChange}
      />
    </div>
  );
};

🏗️ API Reference

PixMark Component

The main component that combines the image viewer and annotation list.

Props

Prop	Type	Required	Description
src	string	✅	URL of the image to display
annotations	IAnnotation[]	✅	Array of annotations to display

Type Definitions

IAnnotation

interface IAnnotation {
  id: string;           // Unique identifier for the annotation
  text: string;         // Display text for the annotation
  boundingBox: {
    x0: number;         // Top-left x coordinate
    y0: number;         // Top-left y coordinate
    x1: number;         // Bottom-right x coordinate
    y1: number;         // Bottom-right y coordinate
  };
  color?: string;       // Optional color for the bounding box (hex or named color)
}

IPixMark

interface IPixMark {
  src: string;                    // Image URL
  annotations: IAnnotation[];     // Array of annotations
}

🧩 Component Architecture

PixMarkViewer

Displays the image with annotation bounding boxes as SVG overlays.

Features:

• Loads images from URLs and converts to base64 for display
• Renders bounding boxes as SVG rectangles
• Handles hover interactions
• Supports custom dimensions and scrolling

PixMarkList

Displays a scrollable list of annotations using virtual scrolling.

Features:

• Virtualized rendering for performance with large lists
• Click to select/deselect annotations
• Hover effects synchronized with image viewer
• Customizable item height and styling

AnnotationEntry

Individual annotation item in the list.

Features:

• Click to toggle selection state
• Hover effects
• Displays annotation text and coordinates

🎨 Styling

PixMark uses inline styles by default but can be customized by wrapping components or using CSS-in-JS solutions.

Default Styles

• Selected annotations: Green border by default, customizable via color prop
• Hover effects: Red border for hovered items
• List items: 30px height with padding and borders

Custom Styling Example

const CustomPixMark = () => (
  <div className="custom-pixmark-container">
    <PixMark
      src="image.jpg"
      annotations={annotations}
    />
    <style jsx>{`
      .custom-pixmark-container :global(.image-large) {
        border-radius: 8px;
      }
      .custom-pixmark-container :global(rect) {
        stroke-width: 2;
      }
    `}</style>
  </div>
);

🔧 Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js 16+
• pnpm, npm, or yarn

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/maifeeulasad/pixmark.git
cd pixmark

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Start development
pnpm run build

# Run linting
pnpm run lint

# Format code
pnpm run format

Build Scripts

Script	Description
pnpm run build	Build the library using tsup (ESM + CJS + DTS)
pnpm run lint	Run ESLint on source files
pnpm run lint:fix	Run ESLint with auto-fix
pnpm run format	Format code with Prettier

Project Structure

src/
├── index.ts              # Main exports
├── components/
│   ├── PixMark.tsx       # Main component
│   ├── PixMarkViewer.tsx # Image viewer with annotations
│   ├── PixMarkList.tsx   # Annotation list
│   └── types.ts          # TypeScript definitions

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please follow these steps:

• Fork the repository
• Create a feature branch: git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature
• Commit your changes: git commit -m 'Add amazing feature'
• Push to the branch: git push origin feature/amazing-feature
• Open a Pull Request

Development Guidelines

• Follow the existing code style
• Add TypeScript types for new features
• Update documentation for API changes
• Add tests for new functionality
• Ensure all linting passes

📄 License

This project is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Built with React and TypeScript
• Uses rc-virtual-list for efficient list rendering
• Inspired by various image annotation tools in the computer vision community

📞 Support

If you have any questions or need help:

• 📧 Email: [e-mail]
• 🐛 Issues: GitHub Issues
• 💬 Discussions: GitHub Discussions

Made with ❤️ by Maifee Ul Asad