ChessGif

Simple and light PGN to Gif library

Usage

import { chessgif, parseMoves } from "pgn2gif"

const moves = parseMoves(exampleGames[0].pgn); // extract moves from PGN text

chessGif.resetCache(); // reset boardCache (optional first time)

chessGif.loadMoves(moves); // load moves 

await chessGif.createGif(0, moves.length, false); // generate blobs of gif file

const url = chessGif.asBase64Gif(); // export file blobs  typeof gif

const data = await url.arrayBuffer(); // convert it to arraybuffer

writeFileSync("./test0.gif", Buffer.from(data)); // write it to a file 

Methods

resetCache

reset boardCache (optional first time)

loadMoves

load parsed moves

createGif

convert moves into gif frames

Todo :

• [ ] add styles options