diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6baf1a67..db50dfaf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ demo/dist/
 demo/cypress/videos/
 .idea/
 
+# platform
+.DS_Store
+
 # Created by https://www.gitignore.io/api/node
 
 ### Node ###
diff --git a/packages/pintora-cli/examples/nodejs-render-example.ts b/packages/pintora-cli/examples/nodejs-render-example.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c86c9e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/pintora-cli/examples/nodejs-render-example.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import * as fs from 'fs'
+import { render, PintoraConfig } from '..'
+
+const buildSVG = async (code: string, config?: Partial<PintoraConfig>) => {
+  const str = await render({
+    code: code,
+    pintoraConfig: config,
+    mimeType: 'image/svg+xml',
+    width: 1000,
+    backgroundColor: '#fff',
+  })
+  fs.writeFileSync('example.svg', str)
+}
+
+const buildPNG = async (code: string, config?: Partial<PintoraConfig>) => {
+  const buf = await render({
+    code: code,
+    pintoraConfig: config,
+    mimeType: 'image/png',
+    width: 800,
+    backgroundColor: '#fdfdfd', // use some other background color
+  })
+  fs.writeFileSync('example.png', buf)
+}
+
+const code = `
+activityDiagram
+start
+:render functionl called;
+if (is mimeType image/svg+xml ?) then
+  :renderer svg;
+  :render with jsdom;
+  :generate string;
+else (no)
+  :renderer canvas;
+  :render with node-canvas;
+  :generate image buffer by mimeType;
+endif
+
+:return result;
+
+end
+`
+
+buildSVG(code)
+
+buildPNG(code)
diff --git a/packages/pintora-cli/examples/tsconfig.json b/packages/pintora-cli/examples/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a364601a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/pintora-cli/examples/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../../../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "rootDir": "src",
+    "outDir": "lib",
+    "module": "commonjs"
+  },
+  "references": [
+    { "path": ".." },
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/packages/pintora-cli/src/index.ts b/packages/pintora-cli/src/index.ts
index 9fa0596c..7f3c9a84 100644
--- a/packages/pintora-cli/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/pintora-cli/src/index.ts
@@ -4,5 +4,7 @@ export { render } from './render'
 
 export { pintoraStandalone }
 
+export type { PintoraConfig } from '@pintora/standalone'
+
 export const setConfig = pintoraStandalone.setConfig
 export const getConfig = pintoraStandalone.getConfig
diff --git a/packages/pintora-cli/tsconfig.json b/packages/pintora-cli/tsconfig.json
index 458efd9e..8d742191 100644
--- a/packages/pintora-cli/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/pintora-cli/tsconfig.json
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     "outDir": "lib",
     "module": "commonjs"
   },
+  "exclude": ["examples", "lib"],
   "references": [
     { "path": "../pintora-core" },
     { "path": "../pintora-renderer" },
diff --git a/website/docs/advanced/api-usage.md b/website/docs/advanced/api-usage.md
index 751eae14..4da32d0b 100644
--- a/website/docs/advanced/api-usage.md
+++ b/website/docs/advanced/api-usage.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: API Usage
 sidebar_position: 1
 ---
 
-## pintora API
+## pintora API in the browser
 
 Here is the API of `@pintora/standalone`.
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ const diagramEventManager: DiagramEventManager
 Only the renders that happen after the event binding will trigger the event handler.
 
 In the example below, only the `click` handler will be triggered because it is bound before the render.
- 
+
 ```ts
 const disposeClickListener = pintora.diagramEventManager.on('click', (item) => {
   console.log('diagramEvent click', item)
@@ -131,3 +131,69 @@ const disposeMouseenterListener = pintora.diagramEventManager.on('mouseenter', (
   console.log('diagramEvent mouseenter', item)
 })
 ```
+
+## pintora API in Node.js (@pintora/cli)
+
+It's a little bit more complicated in Node.js than in the browser, we need to borrow some power from `jsdom` or `node-canvas`. Some wrapper functions are exported from the `@pintora/cli` package - the same one described in the [Cli Usage Doc](../getting-started/usage.mdx#cli), but this time we use it as a Node.js library.
+
+### render(options)
+
+```ts
+export type CLIRenderOptions = {
+  code: string
+  devicePixelRatio?: number | null
+  mimeType?: string
+  backgroundColor?: string
+  pintoraConfig?: Partial<PintoraConfig>
+  width?: number
+}
+
+export function render(options: CLIRenderOptions): Promise<string | buffer>
+```
+
+Current supported `mimeType`
+
+- image/svg+xml
+- image/jpeg
+- image/png
+
+Some example code:
+
+```ts title=nodejs-render-example.ts
+import { render, PintoraConfig } from '@pintora/cli'
+import * as fs from 'fs'
+
+const buildPNG = async (code: string, config?: Partial<PintoraConfig>) => {
+  const buf = await render({
+    code: code,
+    pintoraConfig: config,
+    mimeType: 'image/png',
+    width: 800,
+    backgroundColor: '#fdfdfd', // use some other background color
+  })
+  fs.writeFileSync('example.png', buf)
+}
+
+const code = `
+activityDiagram
+start
+:render functionl called;
+if (is mimeType image/svg+xml ?) then
+  :renderer svg;
+  :render with jsdom;
+  :generate string;
+else (no)
+  :renderer canvas;
+  :render with node-canvas;
+  :generate image buffer by mimeType;
+endif
+
+:return result;
+
+end
+`
+
+buildSVG(code)
+
+buildPNG(code)
+```