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Guides and automated instructions for migrating from Puppeteer, Playwright, or node-html-to-image to Takumi.

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  3. Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.
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Migrate Puppeteer / Playwright to Takumi

Replace resource-heavy headless browser screenshots with native Takumi rendering.

Key Advantages

  • Resources: 300MB+ RAM vs single function call.
  • Cold Starts: Milliseconds vs seconds.
  • Edge Support: Runs in Cloudflare Workers/Edge (WASM). Puppeteer cannot.
  • Packaging: No Chromium binary size issues in serverless.

Code Changes

Static Image Generation

Before (Puppeteer):

import puppeteer from "puppeteer";
const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.setViewport({ width: 1200, height: 630 });
await page.setContent(`<html><body><h1>Hello</h1></body></html>`);
const buffer = await page.screenshot({ type: "png" });
await browser.close();

After (Takumi):

import { render } from "takumi-js";
const buffer = await render(
  <div tw="w-full h-full flex items-center justify-center bg-black text-white">
    <h1 tw="text-6xl font-bold">Hello</h1>
  </div>,
  { width: 1200, height: 630 }
);

Animation (GIF / WebP)

Before: Capturing multiple page frames in a loop and encoding manually. After:

import { renderAnimation } from "takumi-js";
const buffer = await renderAnimation({
  width: 400,
  height: 400,
  fps: 30,
  format: "webp",
  scenes: [
    {
      durationMs: 1000,
      node: <div tw="animate-spin bg-blue-500 w-32 h-32" />,
    },
  ],
});

Migration Constraints

  • No Client JS: Takumi does not execute <script> blocks. Fetch data first, then render layout tree with static state.
  • CSS Support: Standard layout rules (Flexbox, Grid, absolute/relative, pseudo-elements) work. Complex browser features (iframe embed, canvas rendering, custom scrollbars) are unsupported.
  • Fonts: Declare fonts explicitly in RenderOptions instead of relying on default OS font lookups.