React binding to canvas element via Konva framework
React Konva
React Konva is a JavaScript library for drawing complex canvas graphics using React.
It provides declarative and reactive bindings to the Konva Framework.
An attempt to make React work with the HTML5
canvas library. The goal is to have similar declarative markup as normal React
and to have similar data-flow model.
Currently you can use all Konva components as React components and all Konva
events are supported on them in same way as normal browser events are supported.
You can even inspect the components in React dev tools.
Installation
npm install react-konva konva --save
For React v15 use:
npm install react@15.X react-dom@15.X react-konva@1.1.6 konva
Example
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
import { Stage, Layer, Rect, Text } from 'react-konva';
import Konva from 'konva';
class ColoredRect extends React.Component {
state = {
color: 'green'
};
handleClick = () => {
this.setState({
color: Konva.Util.getRandomColor()
});
};
render() {
return (
<Rect
x={20}
y={20}
width={50}
height={50}
fill={this.state.color}
shadowBlur={5}
onClick={this.handleClick}
/>
);
}
}
class App extends Component {
render() {
return (
<Stage width={window.innerWidth} height={window.innerHeight}>
<Layer>
<Text text="Try click on rect" />
<ColoredRect />
</Layer>
</Stage>
);
}
}
render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));
All react-konva components correspond to Konva components of the same name.
All the parameters available for Konva objects are valid props for
corresponding react-konva components, unless otherwise noted.
Core shapes are: Rect, Circle, Ellipse, Line, Image, Text, TextPath, Star,
Label, SVG Path, RegularPolygon. Also you can create custom shape.
To get more info about Konva you can read
Konva Overview.
Actually you don't need to learn react-konva. Just learn Konva framework, you will understand how to use react-konva
Comparisons
react-konva vs react-canvas
react-canvas is a completely
different react plugin. It allows you to draw DOM-like objects (images, texts)
on canvas element in very performant way. It is NOT about drawing graphics, but
react-konva is exactly for drawing complex graphics on <canvas> element from
React.
react-konva vs react-art
react-art allows you to draw graphics on
a page. It also supports SVG for output. But it has no support of events of
shapes.
react-konva vs vanilla canvas
Vanilla canvas is faster because when you use react-konva you have two layers of abstractions. Konva framework is on top of canvas and React is on top of Konva.
Depending on the use case this approach can be slow.
The purpose of react-konva is to reduce the complexity of the application and use well-known declarative way for drawing on canvas.
Documentation and Examples
Note: you can find a lot of demos and examples of using Konva there:
http://konvajs.github.io/. Really, just go there and take a look what Konva can do for you. You will be able to do the same with react-konva too.
There is no large documentation for react-konva. We will just describe several common use cases and adoptions with Konva.
Getting reference to Konva objects
To get reference of Konva instance of a node you can use ref property.
class MyShape extends React.Component {
componentDidMount() {
// log Konva.Circle instance
console.log(this.refs.circle);
}
render() {
return <Circle ref="circle" radius={50} fill="black" />;
}
}
That will work for all nodes except Stage. To get Stage instance you have to
use:
class App extends React.Component {
componentDidMount() {
// log stage react wrapper
console.log(this.refs.stage);
// log Konva.Stage instance
console.log(this.refs.stage.getStage());
}
render() {
return <Stage ref="stage" width="300" height="300" />;
}
}
Animations
For complex animation I recommend to use React methods. Somethings like:
But for simple cases you can use Konva methods:
https://codesandbox.io/s/8nwnnklpp2
class MyRect extends React.Component {
changeSize() {
const rect = this.refs.rect;
// to() is a method of `Konva.Node` instances
rect.to({
scaleX: Math.random() + 0.8,
scaleY: Math.random() + 0.8,
duration: 0.2
});
}
render() {
return (
<Group>
<Rect
ref="rect"
width="50"
height="50"
fill="green"
draggable="true"
onDragEnd={this.changeSize.bind(this)}
onDragStart={this.changeSize.bind(this)}
/>
</Group>
);
}
}
Using images
For images you need manually create native window.Image instance or <canvas>
element and use it as image attribute of ReactKonva.Image component.
Demo: https://codesandbox.io/s/kw51nzpnx3
import React, { Component } from "react";
import { render } from "react-dom";
import { Stage, Layer, Image } from "react-konva";
// VERY IMPORTANT NOTES
// at first we will set image state to null
// and then we will set it to native image instanse
// only when image is loaded
class YodaImage extends React.Component {
state = {
image: null
};
componentDidMount() {
const image = new window.Image();
image.src = "http://konvajs.github.io/assets/yoda.jpg";
image.onload = () => {
// setState will redraw layer
// because "image" property is changed
this.setState({
image: image
});
};
}
render() {
return <Image image={this.state.image} />;
}
}
// here is another way to update the image
class VaderImage extends React.Component {
state = {
image: new window.Image()
};
componentDidMount() {
this.state.image.src = "http://konvajs.github.io/assets/darth-vader.jpg";
this.state.image.onload = () => {
// calling set state here will do nothing
// because properties of Konva.Image are not changed
// so we need to update layer manually
this.imageNode.getLayer().batchDraw();
};
}
render() {
return (
<Image
image={this.state.image}
y={250}
ref={node => {
this.imageNode = node;
}}
/>
);
}
}
class App extends Component {
render() {
return (
<Stage width={window.innerWidth} height={window.innerHeight}>
<Layer>
<YodaImage />
<VaderImage />
</Layer>
</Stage>
);
}
}
render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));
Using filters
To apply filters you need to cache Konva.Node (ref of all react-konva
components).
DEMO: https://codesandbox.io/s/1v38wx7487
class MyRect extends React.Component {
constructor(...args) {
super(...args);
this.state = {
color: 'green'
};
this.handleClick = this.handleClick.bind(this);
}
componentDidMount() {
this.rect.cache();
}
handleClick() {
this.setState(
{
color: Konva.Util.getRandomColor()
},
() => {
// IMPORTANT
// recache on update
this.rect.cache();
}
);
}
render() {
return (
<Rect
filters={[Konva.Filters.Noise]}
noise={1}
x={10}
y={10}
width={50}
height={50}
fill={this.state.color}
shadowBlur={10}
ref={node => {
this.rect = node;
}}
onClick={this.handleClick}
/>
);
}
}