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@napi-rs/canvas vs skia-canvas

3D, WebGL and game enginesPackage data 25 Sept 2026
@napi-rs/canvasv1.0.9, 9 Sept 2026

Canvas for Node.js with skia backend

$ npm install @napi-rs/canvas
skia-canvasv3.0.8, 25 Sept 2025

A multi-threaded, GPU-accelerated, Canvas API for Node

$ npm install skia-canvas
Metric@napi-rs/canvasskia-canvasDifference
Weekly downloads17,659,459170,348@napi-rs/canvas 103.7x higher
12-month download growth+1042%+70%@napi-rs/canvas +972 pts
Gzip size---
Minified size---
Dependencies04skia-canvas 4 more
Unpacked size123 kB175 kB@napi-rs/canvas 43% smaller
Latest release1.0.9, 9 Sept 20263.0.8, 25 Sept 2025@napi-rs/canvas 11 months more recent
Releases, last 12 months29--
First published27 Mar 2021--
GitHub stars2,3232,603skia-canvas +12%
Open issues7611@napi-rs/canvas 65 more
Open pull requests810skia-canvas 2 more
Contributors---
Commits, last 52 weeks200237skia-canvas +19%
TypeScript typesBundledBundledSame
Module formatCommonJSESM + CommonJSDiffers
Runtimes---
LicenseMITMITSame

Green marks the smaller size or the more recent release. Bold marks the higher count, with no judgement implied. Sizes are for the whole package per Bundlephobia. Growth compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series.

@napi-rs/canvas17.6m latest weekskia-canvas170.3k latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
Weekly npm downloads, 52 weeks. Y axis starts at zero. Values are not smoothed.

@napi-rs/canvas

Major versions
  1. 0.0.227 Mar 2021
  2. 1.0.04 May 2026
Last 5 releases
  1. 1.0.99 Sept 2026
  2. 1.0.824 Aug 2026
  3. 1.0.718 Aug 2026
  4. 1.0.613 Aug 2026
  5. 1.0.59 Aug 2026
120 releases in total, 29 in the last 12 months

skia-canvas

Major versions
  1. -
Last 5 releases
  1. -
Release count not fetched
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  • Need no runtime dependencies@napi-rs/canvas (@napi-rs/canvas has 0, skia-canvas has 4)
  • Need both ESM and CommonJS entry pointsskia-canvas (@napi-rs/canvas: CommonJS; skia-canvas: ESM + CommonJS)
  • Need to load it with require()Both
  • Need TypeScript types in the package itselfBoth
  • Node.js version requirement@napi-rs/canvas: >= 10; skia-canvas: none declared (engines field in package.json)
  • Need the more recent release@napi-rs/canvas (1.0.9 on 9 Sept 2026 vs 3.0.8 on 25 Sept 2025)
  • Higher weekly npm downloads@napi-rs/canvas (17.7m vs 170.3k)

Each line is generated from the data above.

skia-canvas: skia-canvas npm registry, skia-canvas npm downloads, skia-canvas GitHub. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.