NAPI (node.js/deno/bun) Support

[RichiCoder1]

What problem does this solve or what need does it fill?

I proposed using Taffy for https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink, which currently uses Yoga much like React Native today. However, when making the suggestion (vadimdemedes/ink#555) I realized that Taffy doesn't currently have NAPI bindings or prebuilt binaries that'd make it easy to pull in.

What solution would you like?

Utilize https://napi.rs/ to ship NodeJS/Deno/Bun bindings

What alternative(s) have you considered?

N/A

[nicoburns]

Hi! We definitely want to add this at some point. However, there is quite a long list of FFI bindings we want to support, and it is hard to justify development on any particular ones until we have a user actively wanting to use them (such as if for example the developers of Ink requested them themselves).

Most likely we'll do C and WASM bindings first, as they are the mostly widely applicable and can also be built on for bindings to other languages. I believe a WASM version would be usable from Node (and indeed that's what the latest versions a Yoga's binding use), albeit with the overhead from WASM.

Finally, you may wish to be aware of https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/tree/master/packages/tui, which is a port of Ink to Rust which uses Taffy for layout.

[RichiCoder1]

That's entirely fair! I'm happy with this just being a placeholder issue for 👍🏼 and we'll see if Ink or other NPM ecosystem creators express interest in this.

Finally, you may wish to be aware of DioxusLabs/dioxus@master/packages/tui, which is a port of Ink to Rust which uses Taffy for layout.

Sadly while I do think Rink is awesome, the primary use case here is where JS is the primary or only toolchain 😅.

[nicoburns]

Oh, just remembered that there's also https://github.com/load1n9/gelatin. They're not first-party bindings, but I think they work.