SkyMap is a lightweight, highly customizable JavaScript/TypeScript library for rendering a realistic sky map on an HTML <canvas>. It supports modern frontend frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, and Next.js, while remaining easy to use in plain JavaScript.
🚀 Designed for simplicity, customization, and performance.
Install via npm, pnpm, yarn or bun:
npm install skymap
yarn add skymap
pnpm add skymap
bun add skymap
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Sky Map</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="sky-container" style="width: 500px; height: 500px;"></div>
<script type="module">
import SkyMap from "skymap";
const container = document.getElementById("sky-container");
const skymap = SkyMap(
container,
{
date: new Date("2023-01-01T12:00:00Z"),
},
{
bgColor: "#0a0d13",
constellations: {
lines: {
labels: {
enabled: false,
},
},
},
}
);
</script>
</body>
</html>
📚 Full API Documentation: skewb1k.github.io/skymap
Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
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FAQs
Interactive Sky Map library for canvas
The npm package skymap receives a total of 15 weekly downloads. As such, skymap popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that skymap 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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