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Image generator for tip images

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Features

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🔒 Security through simple plain text environment variable secret
🌱 Ability to host on Heroku
📝 Multiline text on node-canvas
📦 Simple server, without any unnecessary dependencies.
⚗️ Coming soon: CLI for integration into your existing workflow

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Usage

In order to use this – is long as the CLI is not there, yet – you are able to use this repository as template to customize and go from here.

You can use this by clicking here.

Motivation

For our app, we have a section called "Tips" where dog owners can get useful tips on a daily basis. Every day, every app user is presented a new set of 3 tips which (s)he can share with her friends if desired. Because the editoral effort is very big, when the editor needs to create a new image for each tip, we seeked for a solution to fit our needs in a super easy way.

Upon research we stumbled uppon imgkit because our API is also written in Ruby. We are hosting our servers/droplets on Heroku, which made it a little harder for us to deploy wkhtmltopdf (which imgkit is using behind the scenes). So we searched for a much easier solution for our problem. So, I had canvas in mind. With node-canvas being a pretty stable solution for "backend" canvas support, we had our solution ready. And then, in no time, we had our image generation service ready to deploy in an easy way through Heroku. With the help of node-canvas.