InfiniteCanvas.tools

infinitecanvas.tools is a microsite describing and documenting the history of infinite canvas software, from early design tools (e.g. Illustrator) up to the explosion of whiteboarding, design, programming, and thinking tools today (e.g. Miro, Figma, Origami Studio, MindNode).

The site was created by the Muse team to help showcase the diversity of apps in this space. We draw some inspiration from early versions of jamstack.org, separating advocacy for the category from any one specific product.

We hope to celebrate how these new tools, Muse included, stand on the shoulders of those that came before. This site is a resource and community of like minded thinkers and builders who use infinite canvases in their work.

How to contribute

If you have a change in mind (for example, an app to add to the gallery), please either open an issue or make a pull request with your suggested change. One of the maintainers will follow up to merge your change.

App gallery

Each app gallery entry is a .md file in /src/content/gallery/.

Images are stored in /public/images/gallery. Images in the app gallery have an aspect ratio of 16x9. If you are providing an image, please provide a high-resolution image of at least 1200px wide with your pull request.

usecases is an array of string values chosen from the following list. The intention is to support building filtering or sorting of the list in the future.

• 3D modeling
• design prototyping
• diagramming
• drawing
• machine learning
• map making
• meetings
• mind mapping
• mood boards
• notetaking
• outlining
• process modeling
• programming
• project planning
• retrospectives
• reviews
• storyboarding
• studying
• task management
• teaching
• thinking
• ui design
• video editing
• virtual space
• website
• whiteboard

History

Each history entry is a .md file in /src/content/history/. Each entry has an entry in the frontmatter with the name of the image file.

Images are stored in /public/images/history. Each images has a size of 1024px x 684px. If you are providing an image, please provide a high-resolution image of at least 1024px wide with your pull request.

How to run server

First time setup

1. Clone this repo locally
2. Make sure you install a recent version of Node and npm TODO: identify which minimum version of node and npm are needed
3. Run npm install to install all the project dependencies

Running the dev server

1. Run npm run start to run the dev server. It will print a local address with port and a network address with port (for accessing on another device on the same local network e.g. a phone or tablet)

Under the hood / how to develop

Astro docs

This site is built in Astro.

Astro documentation

Tailwind

This site is styled using Tailwind CSS.

Tailwind documentation

VSCode plugins

If you are using VSCode, there are some useful plugins that can make development easier.

• Astro: This plugin (maintained by the Astro team) adds language support for Astro to VSCode.
• Headwind: This plugin automatically sorts tailwind classes every save.
• Tailwind CSS IntelliSense: This plugin (maintained by the Tailwind Labs team) adds code completion (including custom classes). Try pressing the space key on your keyboard when writing classes.
• Prettier - Code formatter: This formatter, once installed, will pick up the prettier config in this project's package.json.
• prettier-plugin-astro: prettier-plugin-astro adds support for .astro files. Follow instructions to get it working. It is already a dev dependency for this project.