Source: node-d3-path Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), node-tape , nodejs, pkg-js-tools (>= 0.9.17~), rollup, node-rollup-plugin-terser Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Homepage: https://d3js.org/d3-path/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-d3-path.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-d3-path Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-d3-path Architecture: all Depends: nodejs, ${misc:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: Serialize Canvas path commands to SVG Say you have some code that draws to a 2D canvas, the d3-path module lets you take this exact code and additionally render to SVG. It works by serializing CanvasPathMethods calls to SVG path data. . Now code you write once can be used with both Canvas (for performance) and SVG (for convenience). For a practical example, see d3-shape. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.