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ascii.rest
Animated ascii art for web pages, READMEs and terminals: 240 pieces, a banner for any text, an SVG writer, and a kit (ascii.rest/kit) for making your own pieces in a few lines, in TypeScript with no dependencies. npm install ascii.rest, one script tag, or the source copied in through a shadcn registry.
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- llms.txt
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- llms-full.txt
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# ascii.rest
> Animated ascii art for web pages, READMEs and terminals: 240 pieces, a banner for any text, an SVG writer, and a kit (ascii.rest/kit) for making your own pieces in a few lines, in TypeScript with no dependencies. npm install ascii.rest, one script tag, or the source copied in through a shadcn registry.
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- The npm package is `ascii.rest`. It has no dependencies, and only `ascii.rest/react` needs React.
- A piece's name has dashes, like `night-coast`. Its export from `ascii.rest/pieces` is in camelCase, like `nightCoast`.
- `npx ascii.rest list` prints every piece's name.
- React: `import { Ascii, Banner } from "ascii.rest/react"`. Both are client components already (`"use client"`).
- In a React server component, pass a piece's name, `<Ascii piece="night-coast" />`, not an imported module.
- Plain HTML: `<script type="module" src="https://ascii.rest/ascii.js"></script>`, then `<ascii-art piece="donut"></ascii-art>` or `<ascii-banner text="hello"></ascii-banner>`. Always write the closing tag.
- Astro: `import Ascii from "ascii.rest/astro"` and `import Banner from "ascii.rest/astro/banner"`.
- Text pieces draw in a `<pre>`. Coloured pieces (scenes, logos, companies, distros) and banners with a colour draw on a `<canvas>`.
- React's `<Ascii>` adds no CSS to a text piece's `<pre>`: set `line-height: 1.2; margin: 0` on it. The HTML tags and the Astro components set both for you.
- Size a text piece with `font-size`. Size a coloured piece with `width` (in React, in `style`, not a class), and never set its height.
- Colours are six-digit hex, like `#f97316`. `#fff` and `orange` don't work.
- `banner()` throws on an option it can't take. `<Banner>` and `<ascii-banner>` then draw nothing and `console.warn` why.
- To turn an image into ascii in code, use `fromImage()` from `ascii.rest/kit`: any image in a browser, PNG in Node. The page https://ascii.rest/make/ does the same with no code.
- To make a new piece, use `ascii.rest/kit` (version 0.4.0 or later). Start with a recipe, one call by name with options in words: looks such as `sea({ palette: "ocean" })` or `plasma().mask("HI")`, motions such as `spinning(torus())` or `floating(heart())`, widgets such as `clockFace()`, `gauge({ label: "cpu", value: "64%" })` or `progressBar()`. Only when no recipe fits, go down to `field()`, `scene()`, `particles()`, `picture()`, `fromSvg()`, effects such as `glint()`, layouts such as `grid()`, or `piece()` to draw on a grid.
- Everything the kit makes is a normal piece: pass it to `<Ascii piece={...}>`, `mount()`, `svg()` or `play()`. It also chains: `stars().behind(pulsing(heart())).named("love")`.
- Kit options take words: `speed: "slow"`, `amount: "subtle"`, `every: "rarely"`, a look's `scale: "large"`. Wherever it takes colours it takes a palette's name, such as `"ocean"`, `"fire"` or `"cola"`, as well as `#rrggbb`. A misspelt option or word throws
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