Literally Canvas is an extensible, open source (BSD-licensed), HTML5 drawing widget. Its only dependency is React.js. You can use it to embed drawing boards in web pages. It’s kind of like an extensible MS Paint in JavaScript. Users can sketch drawings and you can do what you like with the results. comes with an easy-to-use jQuery plugin. It’s developed by the community for many purposes and is free to use and extend. Literally Canvas is intended to live inside your application in the way that works best for you. There is a public API for adding new shapes and tools. Literally Canvas is optimized to work with complex drawings, and it smooths lines naturally to avoid the unsightly line angles often seen in simplistic drawing programs.

Features

  • Basic drawing tools
  • An API to add more drawing tools
  • Panning and zooming
  • Constant-size or infinite canvases
  • Background images/shapes and watermarks
  • Retina support
  • Saving and loading JSON
  • Exporting drawings to PNG and SVG

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Categories

HTML/XHTML, Browsers

License

BSD License

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Programming Language

CoffeeScript

Related Categories

CoffeeScript HTML XHTML, CoffeeScript Browsers

Registered

2023-04-28