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Overview

Features

• Supports Desktop and Mobile.
• Accepts input from Mouse, touch, and graphic tablets.

Requirements

• <span style="color:red">Requires React >= 16.8</span>

Wanna test React Sketch Canvas before using it?

• Try here

Installation

If you use npm

npm i react-sketch-canvas

or with yarn

yarn add react-sketch-canvas

Example

Common usage example

import * as React from "react";
import { ReactSketchCanvas } from "react-sketch-canvas";

const styles = {
  border: "0.0625rem solid #9c9c9c",
  borderRadius: "0.25rem",
};

const Canvas = () => {
  return <ReactSketchCanvas style={styles} width="600" height="400" strokeWidth={4} strokeColor="red" />;
};

To export Data URL of your sketch use ref

import * as React from "react";
import { ReactSketchCanvas } from "react-sketch-canvas";

const styles = {
  border: "0.0625rem solid #9c9c9c",
  borderRadius: "0.25rem",
};

const Canvas = class extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.canvas = React.createRef();
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <ReactSketchCanvas ref={this.canvas} strokeWidth={5} strokeColor="black" />
        <button
          onClick={() => {
            this.canvas.current
              .exportImage("png")
              .then((data) => {
                console.log(data);
              })
              .catch((e) => {
                console.log(e);
              });
          }}
        >
          Get Image
        </button>
      </div>
    );
  }
};

List of Props

Set SVG background using CSS background value

You can specify width and height values in em or rem. It fills the parent element space if width and height are not set

Methods

You can export the sketch as an image or as a svg

Use ref to access the element and call the following functions to export image

Types

type ExportImageType = "jpeg" | "png";

interface Point {
  x: number;
  y: number;
}

interface CanvasPath {
  paths: Point[];
  strokeWidth: number;
  strokeColor: string;
  drawMode: boolean;
  startTimestamp?: number;
  endTimestamp?: number;
}

Thanks to

• Philipp Spiess' tutorial
• Draws smooth curves, thanks to François Romain's tutorial