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      <title>iDraw.js, a simple web drawing JavaScript library based on Canvas</title>
      <dc:creator>chenshenhai</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 13:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/chenshenhai/idrawjs-a-simple-web-drawing-javascript-library-based-on-canvas-2o1n</link>
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      <description>&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Introduction
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F0wcc6mengxfk0cyj4yyo.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F0wcc6mengxfk0cyj4yyo.png" alt="Image description" width="800" height="471"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is an open source JavaScript library, using TypeScript to develop a Web drawing framework based on Canvas.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Website: &lt;a href="https://idrawjs.com/"&gt;https://idrawjs.com/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;GitHub: &lt;a href="https://github.com/idrawjs/idraw"&gt;https://github.com/idrawjs/idraw&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A JavaScript library for drawing and manipulating materials based on pure Canvas.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You can expand and customize various visual manipulation applications based on iDraw.js, here you can refer to the case &lt;a href="https://idrawjs.com/studio/"&gt;https://idrawjs.com/studio/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It can draw text, rectangles, circles, pictures, HTML fragments and SVG files, and all of them can be used as drawing elements to generate data in specified formats.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  More information
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;GitHub: &lt;a href="https://github.com/idrawjs/idraw"&gt;https://github.com/idrawjs/idraw&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Document: &lt;a href="https://idrawjs.com/"&gt;https://idrawjs.com/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Playground: &lt;a href="https://idrawjs.com/playground/"&gt;https://idrawjs.com/playground/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The actual case of Studio based on iDraw.js: &lt;a href="https://idrawjs.com/studio/"&gt;https://idrawjs.com/studio/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Why I develop iDraw.js
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;In order to use pure Canvas features to combine pictures, HTML and SVG as materials to do drawing work.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;In order to try to see what kind of multi-material drawing work can be done with the 2D API of Canvas alone.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The last is to try to use Canvas as much as possible to manipulate the material.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  iDraw.js's Features
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Draw Text
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Ffhwqgi2zi6azwl1qs3zn.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Ffhwqgi2zi6azwl1qs3zn.gif" alt="Image description" width="600" height="408"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Draw Rectangle
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fknwpeva9hlqb1s245whx.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fknwpeva9hlqb1s245whx.gif" alt="Image description" width="600" height="406"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Draw Circle
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fnrf5i1wgkf192dyqi940.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fnrf5i1wgkf192dyqi940.gif" alt="Image description" width="600" height="404"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Draw Image
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Ffsmy1obj46qa7xzuwhnk.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Ffsmy1obj46qa7xzuwhnk.gif" alt="Image description" width="599" height="407"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Draw SVG Code
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F4ms5gcj0wqene1393ix9.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F4ms5gcj0wqene1393ix9.gif" alt="Image description" width="600" height="404"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Draw HTML Code
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F9yx9bck5e8xwmb1qb08w.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media.dev.to/cdn-cgi/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F9yx9bck5e8xwmb1qb08w.gif" alt="Image description" width="599" height="404"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Next Plan
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Continue to optimize performance&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Extend more drawing element types&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

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      <category>canvas</category>
      <category>2d</category>
      <category>javascript</category>
      <category>typescript</category>
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