Elyra Canvas is an open-source library, which provides React objects that enable applications to quickly create a fully functional flow editor. Users can easily create and edit the flows of linked nodes by using the flow editor.
Elyra Canvas in action in the SPSS Modeler UI, the flagship component of IBM Watsonx
Elyra Canvas Modules
The elyra-ai/canvas repo contains three main modules: Common Canvas, Common Properties and Test Harness. For more details, see this documentation.
Elyra Canvas Components Overview
The Elyra Canvas package delivers two decoupled React objects: Common Canvas and Common Properties. For more details, see this documentation.
Try Elyra Canvas
The "Tiny App" is a demonstration application that is produced with only a few lines of code. You can use it to try these features of Elyra Canvas:
Dragging a node
Editing a comment (by double clicking on it)
Dragging a node from the palette
Clicking a button on the toolbar
Zooming in and out using the scroll gesture
Getting started
Elyra Canvas requires react, react-dom, react-intl, and react-redux libraries to be installed. For versions requirements, see peerDependencies in package.json.
To install @elyra/canvas in your project, run the following command using npm:
npm install @elyra/canvas --save-dev
For more details about installation and getting started in Elyra Canvas, check out:
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The npm package @elyra/canvas receives a total of 1,190 weekly downloads. As such, @elyra/canvas popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @elyra/canvas demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago.It has 8 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 27 Sep 2025
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