Canvas npm package downloads show a clear upward trend from March 2024 to August 2025, peaking at over 17 million downloads. However, September 2025 reflects a significant drop, likely due to the month being incomplete as of today, September 12, 2025.
canvas provides Node.js with canvas drawing capabilities. Built atop Cairo, it offers a familiar HTML canvas-like API for server-side image manipulation, graphics generation, and more. Ideal for creating dynamic images, charts, visualizations, and processing images outside the browser! With canvas, you can leverage JavaScript to produce visually rich content tailored for various applications, from web dashboards to command-line tools.
The npm package canvas has a long release history, starting in December 2010. Release frequency was high in the early years (2010-2012) but has significantly decreased since 2016. There were periods of no releases, particularly from 2020-2024. So far in 2025, there have been releases in January, June and August and zero releases in September.
