Szymon Kaliski
Sketchbook
sketchbook-cli is a tool for organising, editing and displaying code-based sketches in real-time.
It complimentes live-reloading with live-screenshotting capabilities, providing a gallery with previews generated from code.
The tool was built to help me see all the sketches that I'm working on, as I usually create a bunch of small random files to test ideas and play around.
These files are usually named either 0001.js or 20181029-1814.js, so being able to see what they all output at the same time removes a lot of friction from my sketching workflow.
sketchbook-cli is open sourced: szymonkaliski/sketchbook-cli ↗, and can be installed via npm: npm install -g sketchbook-cli.
Most of the live-reload code was adapted from budo ↗.
This project was developed in part at Laboratory, an artist residency for interactive arts: laboratoryspokane.com ↗. You can read more about my time in Spokane in this blog post: Laboratory Residency.
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136 words published on 2018-08-29 — let me know what you think