Rendering in the BE or FE?

[ArnonAfriat]

Hi Blaine!

This is not a real issue but there are no direct messaging in github so...
I would love to discuss with you my thought about your package. I was looking for a solution exactly like the POC you made here with the basketball:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-depth-map
You are using a gif with a pre-determined movement scenario to the component, so I was wondering in case this is the desired use case, where you don't want the user to control the movement, just watch a scripted movement, which is better?
To set a component in the UI and automate mouse movement without user intervention or render a gif in the BE just once, and load it to the UI as any other gif?

I would love to know how you made the basketball gif example and if it can be done purely in the BE!

Thanks,
Arnon

[blaineo]

Hey Arnon, the gif I made was simple a screen capture of me using the component. The component uses a canvas to draw the animation based either on the scroll position or the mouse position. The animation could certainly be automated, but would have to be set to listen to something other than scroll or mouse movement. You could use some sort of time out or loop to set the component in motion, but doing a gif exporter on the backend would take quite a bit of effort and it's not what this component is designed to do. Let me know if that helps you at all or if you have any other questions. Cheers, Blaine

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 6:39 AM ArnonAfriat ***@***.***> wrote: Hi Blaine! This is not a real issue but there are no direct messaging in github so... I would love to discuss with you my thought about your package. I was looking for a solution exactly like the POC you made here with the basketball: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-depth-map <http://url> You are using a gif with a pre-determined movement scenario to the component, so I was wondering in case this is the desired use case, where you don't want the user to control the movement, just watch a scripted movement, which is better? To set a component in the UI and automate mouse movement without user intervention or render a gif in the BE just once, and load it to the UI as any other gif? I would love to know how you made the basketball gif example and if it can be done purely in the BE! Thanks, Arnon — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABA5FIGHDAOAOYEVQILWRN3SDZDH3ANCNFSM4QTAUVUA> .

[ArnonAfriat]

Hi Blaine,

Thank you for your replay!
May I ask why did you created this package? Are there any alternative? Are they too complex or lacking features?

Thanks,
Arnon

[ArnonAfriat]

I'm unable to install the package with
npm install react-depth-component

Getting an error:
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/react-depth-component - Not found