Using Pintora as a library in Node.js

[tex0l]

Hi,
I moved from Mermaid to Pintora for my blog in Astro because I need SSR (see mermaid-js/mermaid#3650), and solutions involving pupeteer end up with a result which is not consistent across browsers, contrary to what I've seen with Pintora.

However, the documentation to use Pintora as a library is really confusing (or non-existent), it's designed to be used in Node.js as a CLI only, not a as a library.

I circumvented the issue to generate an SVG from a string in a Node.js script by importing the render function from '@pintora/cli':

import {render} from '@pintora/cli'
import type {PintoraConfig} from '@pintora/standalone'

const buildSVG = async (code: string, config: PintoraConfig) => {
  const result = await render({
    code: code,
    pintoraConfig: config,
    mimeType: 'image/svg+xml'
  })
}

In the API usage documentation, there is no mention of how to use the CLI's Node.js APIs, and no mention of how to use the '@pintora/standalone' package to generate an SVG from a string.

I would suggest to either:

• document the API of '@pintora/cli'
• or to embed within '@pintora/standalone' the render function from '@pintora/cli' which allows using it in a Node.js script.

[hikerpig]

Thank you for the try and this feedback, I'll look into it this weekend.
Basically it's the former one, add some documentation about how to use @pintora/cli as a node.js library.

[hikerpig]

I've added a little basic demostration for this usage. https://pintorajs.vercel.app/docs/advanced/api-usage/#pintora-api-in-nodejs-pintoracli