Repository that contains the Dockerfile to create a custom node-canvas binary for the AWS Lambda container with only PNG support (can be extended easily though).

You might need to sudo your commands

1. Run docker

docker build -t canvas-node .

2. Store the dist folder somewhere on your machine (storing under /tmp/ here, which might end up in different folders based on distribution and how you set up docker)

id=$(docker create canvas-node) docker cp $id:/root/dist /tmp/canvas-node-dist

3. Take the lib folder from the dist and put it into the package of your lambda function (so most likely next to the node_modules). Take the canvas.node from node_modules/canvas/build/Release directory of the dist and store it somewhere. You will need to overwrite the canvas.node binary (also in node_modules/canvas/build/Release) in the node_modules of your lambda function with the binary from the docker container before you deploy the code to lambda! You can also delete all libraries in the node_modules/canvas/build/Release directory that you either don't need (e.g .svg, .jpeg and .gif libraries if you build your canvas without support for them). In my example, I delete all libraries there and simply put the generated canvas.node there.