Neat! I enjoyed watching the livestream.
Decker's ".deck" file format is very simple and easy to generate directly, but Lilt can also programmatically manipulate decks!
Imagine we had an API endpoint that lets anyone fetch address book data as JSON like so:
[
{
"name":"alice",
"email":"alice@alice-rules.com",
"photo":"https://alice-rules.com/photo.png"
},
{
"name":"jane",
"email":"jane@janeswebzone.pizza",
"photo":"https://janeswebzone.pizza/about/jane.png"
}
]
Additionally, imagine we've already created a ".deck" template, with a card named "entry" that has a number of fields we wish to fill out and a canvas named "photo" for the person's thumbnail image.
Using Lil in concert with the curl and imagemagick commandline utilities, we could do something like the following:
