I previously worked on an in-browser Hearthstone card renderer that uses Canvas. The rendering needed to be client-side for dynamic use cases (where the card wo

I previously worked on an in-browser Hearthstone card renderer that uses Canvas. The rendering needed to be client-side for dynamic use cases (where the card would receive various effects thus change its look). However I also needed to implement a server-side version of it that prerendered all the cards to PNG so that they're browsable without having clients consume excessive cpu/battery. Doing it using a separate codebase would have been hell to reconcile. Hence node-canvas.