Mondrian
Mondrian is a smart and easy-to-learn vector graphics web app.
UNMAINTAINED REPO: I wrote this in college for fun and am keeping it up for posterity.
Features
Basic
Mondrian offers all the tools needed to create, modify, and export simple SVG files.
- Basic editing capabilities
- Strict drawing with the pen tool
- Loose drawing with the crayon tool
- Shape manipulation (scaling & rotation)
- Individual point manipulation with bezier controls
- Basic typography
- Zoom, eyedropper
- Smooth, efficient tools & operations
- File import (via
FileReader)- SVG
- File export
- SVG
- PNG (via
canvasAPI)
- Clean UI
- Minimal "flat" aesthetic with little visual distraction
- A smart UI that shows only utilities that can be used at that moment
- Layout
- Basic dot grid with snapping for layout
Innovations
Mondrian also supports undo/redo through a (somewhat rough and unstable) file history API that
- stores operations, not states
- is tiny and JSON-serializable, so it can be persisted to a server and loaded back up in another session
- can visually reconstruct a file's entire history step-by-step
There are no tests written for this system. It's a big todo.
Running the app
Mondrian is a simple static site.
To run it locally for the first time you have to clone the repo,
install the dependencies, and build the source files.
git clone git@github.com:artursapek/mondrian.git
cd mondrian
npm install
cake build
cake server
Then, open localhost:3000 in your web browser, and there you have it!
You can also access the latest stable build at mondrian.io.
Installing Dependencies
npm install
Running the local server
cake server
Building the app
Run the build task to compile all of the JavaScript, HTML, and CSS from /src/ into /build/.
cake build
It features a dumb progress bar that's based off the last compile time. It's actually pretty accurate.
> cake build
[██████ ] 14 seconds remaining
The entire app is written in Coffeescript. You have
to manually compile the app every time you make changes.
The source files are specified in an ordered map in build.yml.
They are nested under their directory names. You can specify a different
directory name using the _dir: key. null means no directory.
For example,
src: !!omap
- setup:
- _dir: null
- settings
- setup
- userInterface:
- _dir: ui
- selection
- geometry:
- posn
- line-segment
refers to
src/settings.coffee
src/setup.coffee
src/ui/selection.coffee
src/geometry/posn.coffee
src/geometry/line-segment.coffee
Contributing
There's a lot to do! Read CONTRIBUTING.md for a list of what you can work on,
context around the project, and guidelines.
Supported Browsers
Mondrian officially supports only the latest desktop stable versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
License
All of the Mondrian code and documentation is available under the MIT License.
Contact
You're welcome to contact me at me@artur.co.