Fabric
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Fabric.js is a framework that makes it easy to work with HTML5 canvas element. It is an interactive object model on top of canvas element. It is also an SVG-to-canvas parser.
Using Fabric.js, you can create and populate objects on canvas; objects like simple geometrical shapes — rectangles, circles, ellipses, polygons, or more complex shapes consisting of hundreds or thousands of simple paths. You can then scale, move, and rotate these objects with the mouse; modify their properties — color, transparency, z-index, etc. You can also manipulate these objects altogether — grouping them with a simple mouse selection.
Non-Technical Introduction to Fabric
Fabric.js allows you to easily create simple shapes like rectangles, circles, triangles and other polygons or more complex shapes made up of many paths, onto the HTML <canvas>
element on a webpage using JavaScript. Fabric.js will then allow you to manipulate the size, position and rotation of these objects with a mouse. It’s also possible to change some of the attributes of these objects such as their color, transparency, depth position on the webpage or selecting groups of these objects using the Fabric.js library. Fabric.js will also allow you to convert an SVG image into JavaScript data that can be used for putting it onto the <canvas>
element.
Contributions are very much welcome!
Goals
Supported browsers
- Firefox 2+
- Safari 3+
- Opera 9.64+
- Chrome (all versions)
- IE9, IE10, IE11, Edge
- IE8 (incomplete — about 17 failing tests at the moment)
- IE7,6 (incomplete - about 27 failing tests at the moment)
See Fabric limitations in Old IE.
Note: to properly make old IE work, you will need to add html5shiv as a conditional comment in your HEAD, particularly html5shiv-printshiv.js
to allow for children elements:
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="path/to/your/html5shiv-printshiv.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
Remember to add Explorer Canvas as well.
You can run automated unit tests right in the browser.
History
Fabric.js started as a foundation for design editor on printio.ru — interactive online store with ability to create your own designs. The idea was to create Javascript-based editor, which would make it easy to manipulate vector shapes and images on T-Shirts. Since performance was one of the most critical requirements, we chose canvas over SVG. While SVG is excellent with static shapes, it's not as performant as canvas when it comes to dynamic manipulation of objects (movement, scaling, rotation, etc.). Fabric.js was heavily inspired by Ernest Delgado's canvas experiment. In fact, code from Ernest's experiment was the foundation of an entire framework. Later, Fabric.js grew into a collection of distinct object types and got an SVG-to-canvas parser.
Install with bower
$ bower install fabric
Install with npm
To install Fabric.js using npm, you must first manually [install Cairo](http://cairographics.org/download/) on your system. Cairo is a system library which powers node-canvas, which Fabric.js relies on. When the installation is complete, you may need to restart your terminal or command prompt before installing fabric.
$ npm install fabric --save
Building
-
Install Node.js
-
Build distribution file [~77K minified, ~20K gzipped]
$ node build.js
2.1 Or build a custom distribution file, by passing (comma separated) module names to be included.
$ node build.js modules=text,serialization,parser
// or
$ node build.js modules=text
// or
$ node build.js modules=parser,text
// etc.
By default (when none of the modules are specified) only basic functionality is included.
See the list of modules below for more information on each one of them.
Note that default distribution has support for static canvases only.
To get minimal distribution with interactivity, make sure to include corresponding module:
$ node build.js modules=interaction
2.2 You can also include all modules like so:
$ node build.js modules=ALL
2.3 You can exclude a few modules like so:
$ node build.js modules=ALL exclude=gestures,image_filters
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Create a minified distribution file
# Using YUICompressor (default option)
$ node build.js modules=... minifier=yui
# or Google Closure Compiler
$ node build.js modules=... minifier=closure
-
Enable AMD support via require.js (requires uglify)
$ node build.js requirejs modules=...
-
Create source map file for better productive debugging (requires uglify or google closure compiler).
More information about source maps.
$ node build.js sourcemap modules=...
If you use google closure compiler you have to add sourceMappingURL
manually at the end of the minified file all.min.js (see issue https://code.google.com/p/closure-compiler/issues/detail?id=941).
//# sourceMappingURL=fabric.min.js.map
-
Lint source code (prerequisite: npm -g install jshint
)
$ jshint src
-
Ensure code guidelines are met (prerequisite: npm -g install jscs
)
$ jscs src
Testing
-
Install Node.js
-
Install NPM, if necessary
-
Install NPM packages
$ npm install
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Run test suite
$ npm test
Demos
Who's using Fabric?
Documentation
Documentation is always available at http://fabricjs.com/docs/.
Also see official 4-part intro series, presentation from BK.js and presentation from Falsy Values for an overview of fabric.js, how it works, and its features.
Optional modules
These are the optional modules that could be specified for inclusion, when building custom version of fabric:
- text — Adds support for static text (
fabric.Text
) - itext — Adds support for interactive text (
fabric.IText
) - serialization — Adds support for
loadFromJSON
, loadFromDatalessJSON
, and clone
methods on fabric.Canvas
- interaction — Adds support for interactive features of fabric — selecting/transforming objects/groups via mouse/touch devices.
- parser — Adds support for
fabric.parseSVGDocument
, fabric.loadSVGFromURL
, and fabric.loadSVGFromString
- image_filters — Adds support for image filters, such as grayscale of white removal.
- easing — Adds support for animation easing functions
- node — Adds support for running fabric under node.js, with help of jsdom and node-canvas libraries.
- freedrawing — Adds support for free drawing
- gestures — Adds support for multitouch gestures with help of Event.js
- object_straightening — Adds support for rotating an object to one of 0, 90, 180, 270, etc. depending on which is angle is closer.
- animation — Adds support for animation (
fabric.util.animate
, fabric.util.requestAnimFrame
, fabric.Object#animate
, fabric.Canvas#fxCenterObjectH/#fxCenterObjectV/#fxRemove
)
Additional flags for build script are:
- requirejs — Makes fabric requirejs AMD-compatible in
dist/fabric.js
. Note: an unminified, requirejs-compatible version is always created in dist/fabric.require.js
- no-strict — Strips "use strict" directives from source
- no-svg-export — Removes svg exporting functionality
- no-es5-compat - Removes ES5 compat methods (Array.prototype., String.prototype., Function.prototype.*)
- sourcemap - Generates a sourceMap file and adds the
sourceMappingURL
(only if uglifyjs is used) to dist/fabric.min.js
For example:
node build.js modules=ALL exclude=json no-strict no-svg-export
Examples of use
Adding red rectangle to canvas
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="canvas" width="300" height="300"></canvas>
<script src="lib/fabric.js"></script>
<script>
var canvas = new fabric.Canvas('canvas');
var rect = new fabric.Rect({
top : 100,
left : 100,
width : 60,
height : 70,
fill : 'red'
});
canvas.add(rect);
</script>
</body>
</html>
Helping Fabric
Staying in touch
Follow @fabric.js or @kangax on twitter.
Questions, suggestions — fabric.js on Google Groups.
See Fabric questions on Stackoverflow,
Fabric snippets on jsfiddle
or codepen.io.
Fabric on LibKnot.
Get help in Fabric's IRC channel — irc://irc.freenode.net/#fabric.js
Credits
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2008-2015 Printio (Juriy Zaytsev, Maxim Chernyak)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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