nooshu / node-countdown-gif

Using Node to generate a countdown Gif. Serve or download it as required.

Gif countdown generator

The very simple app I have created allows you to generate a countdown timer animated gif depending on the URL parameters you provide. View demo. Now no longer maintained.

URL Parameters (*required)

• time* - Date & time when your countdown will end [e.g. 2016-06-24T20:35]
• frames - number of frames (also number of seconds) the countdown will run before looping [defaults to 30]
• width - width in pixels [defaults to 200]
• height - height in pixels [defaults to 200]
• bg - hex colour code for the background [defaults to 000000]
• color - hex colour code for the text [defaults to ffffff]
• name - filename used for the generated gif [defaults to 'default']

Generate Examples

These trigger a download. Change the URL from /generate to /serve when used in an image tag.

• Basic: /generate?time=2018-09-24T20:35
• Custom dimensions: /generate?time=2018-09-24T20:35&width=300&height=150
• Custom colours: /generate?time=2018-09-24T20:35&bg=028900&color=adff00
• Custom name & frames: /generate?time=2018-09-24T20:35&name=awesome-gif&frames=20

Versions

Tested with and designed for:

• node 6.0.0
• cairo 1.8.6

License

MIT

node-countdown-gif's Issues

Heroku deployment

Hi,

Thank you for sharing this useful repo.

I'm encountering some difficulties deploying it to heroku.

Can you describe the steps you followed to do so, please ?

createCanvas is not a function

Hey, firstly I love this build and have managed to deploy it to Heroku!

I was looking at adding web fonts support and have been looking at the registerFont utility method. However if I tweak the code from:

const Canvas = require('canvas');
........
this.canvas = new Canvas(this.width, this.height);

To either:

const Canvas = require('canvas');
........
this.canvas = Canvas.createCanvas(this.width, this.height);

or:

const { createCanvas } = require('canvas');
........
this.canvas = createCanvas(this.width, this.height);

I get an error telling me that createCanvas is not a function, the same if I add registerFont.

I'm using canvas 2.6.0 and node 11.8.0, any ideas?

Thanks,

Dan