# madbence/node-drawille

Drawing in terminal with unicode braille characters

Repository: https://github.com/madbence/node-drawille
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/node-drawille
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-10-16T21:40:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4503, "days_push": 1417, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1031, forks 30 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:17.949927+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js library for drawing in the terminal using Unicode braille characters, providing a minimal Canvas-like API (set, unset, toggle, clear, frame). It is the basis for terminal charting tools like vtop.

## Use cases
- draw charts in the terminal
- render graphs with unicode braille characters
- plot real-time metrics in a CLI
- draw animated graphics in the terminal
- build terminal dashboards with custom rendering

## When to choose
- you need pixel-level terminal drawing with high braille resolution
- you want a minimal canvas API to build your own terminal charts or animations
- you're building a Node.js CLI tool that renders graphs or waveforms

## When to avoid
- you need higher-level drawing primitives like lines or shapes out of the box
- you want an HTML5 Canvas-compatible API (use drawille-canvas instead)
- your project is not JavaScript/Node.js

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: graphics, terminal-ui, data-visualization
- domain: developer-tools, data-visualization
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: braille, terminal-graphics, canvas, unicode, ascii-art, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- madbence/node-drawille (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:17.949927+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:07:28.047549+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/madbence/node-drawille (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:17.949927+00:00, sha 640f0fa3e8e1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.