Getting started with vue and canvas via Konva

How to use canvas with Vue?

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Vue Konva is a JavaScript library for drawing complex canvas graphics using Vue.

It provides declarative and reactive bindings to the Konva Framework.

All vue-konva components correspond to Konva components of the same name with the prefix ‘v-‘. All the parameters available for Konva objects can add as config in the prop for corresponding vue-konva components.

Core shapes are: v-rect, v-circle, v-ellipse, v-line, v-image, v-text, v-text-path, v-star, v-label, v-path, v-regular-polygon.
Also you can create custom shape.

To get more info about Konva you can read Konva Overview.

Quick Start

Vue.js version 2.4+ is required.

1 Install via npm

vue@3:

npm install vue-konva konva --save

vue@2:

npm install vue-konva@2 konva --save

2 Import and use VueKonva

vue@3:

import { createApp } from 'vue';
import App from './App.vue';
import VueKonva from 'vue-konva';

const app = createApp(App);
app.use(VueKonva);
app.mount('#app');

vue@2:

import Vue from 'vue';
import VueKonva from 'vue-konva';

Vue.use(VueKonva);

3 Reference in your component templates

<template>
<v-stage :config="configKonva">
<v-layer>
<v-circle :config="configCircle"></v-circle>
</v-layer>
</v-stage>
</template>
<script>
export default {
data() {
return {
configKonva: {
width: 200,
height: 200
},
configCircle: {
x: 100,
y: 100,
radius: 70,
fill: "red",
stroke: "black",
strokeWidth: 4
}
};
}
};

</script>

Or use a CDN

<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta
name="viewport"
content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"
/>
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="app">
<v-stage ref="stage" :config="configKonva">
<v-layer ref="layer">
<v-circle :config="configCircle"></v-circle>
</v-layer>
</v-stage>
</div>
<!--1. Link Vue Javascript & Konva-->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/vue/dist/vue.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/konva@9/konva.min.js"></script>
<!--2. Link VueKonva Javascript (Plugin automatically installed)-->
<script src="./lib/vue-konva.min.js"></script>
<script>
// 3. Create the Vue instance
new Vue({
el: '#app',
data: {
configKonva: {
width: 200,
height: 200,
},
configCircle: {
x: 100,
y: 100,
radius: 70,
fill: 'red',
stroke: 'black',
strokeWidth: 4,
},
},
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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