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Web (JS) Migrating from v1 to v2

Migrating from v1 to v2

Migration notes going from v1 to v2 of the JS runtime

Starting in v2 of our Web (JS) runtimes, Rive will support Rive Text at runtime, which includes the following packages:

  • Web (JS) / WASM

    • @rive-app/canvas

    • @rive-app/canvas-advanced

    • @rive-app/webgl

    • @rive-app/webgl-advanced

    • ...and other @rive-app/*-single variants

Major Changes

No breaking API changes!

While a new major version has been released for the runtimes without breaking API changes, v2 was released due to a bundle size increase in the package. The reason for this is new internal dependencies added to the Web Assembly (WASM) build that powers Rive, specifically for supporting the powerful Rive Text feature. You may find that the request for the WASM file when loading Rive is ~261kb brotli-compressed as of v2.0.0.

If you're looking for a lite version without the Rive Text feature, you can look to @rive-app/canvas-lite and @rive-app/canvas-advanced-lite