⭐ Starforge is a pixel art editor that runs in your browser. No engine work today, since I focused on a more important point: Whoever opens starforge.lacorte.city from a feed post, leaves in about two minutes, with no instructions and usually a phone in their hand, so the whole day went into that first visit. You can start your own document now insted of only erasing the star, your drawings survives a reload, and on a phone the layer panel became a drawer.

How it works

Most web editors take your drawing with them when they break. This one doesn’t. When a component throws, an error boundary renders a screen where Export PNG still works, if the editor dies, you get the PNG out before you reload.

Two reasons that’s possible. The document never lived inside the component that broke: it belongs to the DocumentSession, outside the render tree. And the export never goes through the editor, it composites the frame straight from the document. The thing that holds your art and the thing that failed are not the same thing.

Receipts:

• 208 green tests
• draw, reload, auto-save
• a keys help menu for shortcuts and gestures
• zoom by button, fit in one click

Tomorrow morning the first real ship goes out :D