🚢 3.0.0 planning issue

[LinusU]

Things to consider for the 3.0.0 major version:

• Drop support for old Node.js versions (14.x EOL at 2023-04-30, 16.x EOL at 2023-09-11)
• Change the Canvas class to OffscreenCanvas
  • Make our OffscreenCanvas extend Node.js EventTarget
• Make Image and ImageData behave like browsers (using node-gfx/image & node-gfx/image-data)
• Replace simple-get with Node.js builtin fetch
• Require Pango 2 (if it's released in time)
  • New FontFace and document.fonts based API instead of registerFont
  • Non-standard fillGlyphs(face, glyphIds) API for fast rendering if shaping has already been done (e.g. harfbuzzjs)

Please note that this issue is for discussing breaking changes and not a place for general feature requests!

[chearon]

Added Pango 2, which will solve a ton of font issues.

Should N-API be considered a breaking change? I plan on testing a lot, but it will introduce at least a few regressions.

[LinusU]

Added Pango 2, which will solve a ton of font issues.

Nice! 🙌

Should N-API be considered a breaking change? I plan on testing a lot, but it will introduce at least a few regressions.

Might be a good idea 👍

[piranna]

If we replace Canvas for OffscreenCanvas, can we get merged my PRs, specially #1540 with the ScreenBackend class so we can have proper support for on-screen Canvas?

[jimmywarting]

can we instead remove the hole Image and http stuff with a createImageBitmap(blob)?

[jimmywarting]

why should OffscreenCanvas extend EventTarget?

[aoor9]

Is v3.0.0 released? Because it doesn't seem to be available on npm registry.

[LinusU]

@zbjornson I saw that you pushed a v3.0.0 commit & tag to the repo, but we haven't published it to npm yet. The package.json still says that Node.js 10 is minimum version, and no other of the breaking changes are in yet.

Maybe we can add a few more breaking changes now before we re-tag and publish 3.0.0 to Npm? Or we consider 3.0.0 shipped and the breaking changes discussed above will go in 4.x...

I'll open some PRs which we could consider.

pinging @chearon also, do you have any input?

[LinusU]

why should OffscreenCanvas extend EventTarget?

According to MDN, OffscreenCanvas in the browser extends EventTarget? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCanvas

[alumni]

Seems that the Mac build and the Windows tests are failing after the N-API refactor, maybe those would need to be fixed first in order to publish the package? :)

[chearon]

It's not published to NPM because the Windows prebuilds aren't working (and neither @zbjornson or I have looked - that's always a huge time sink). package.json node got changed in #2235, so that technically is a breaking change.