can-vue

Vue plugin for HTML5 Canvas + Vue.js, nice and straightforward. Built on Konva.

Getting Started

npm i can-vue

Register the plugin:

import CanVue from 'can-vue'
Vue.use(CanVue)

// instantiate your Vue instance after registering
new Vue({
    // ...options
})

Then, in a single-file component:

<template>
    <can-vue>
        <!-- your canvas content here! -->
    </can-vue>
</template>

You can then add shapes from Konva inside can-vue with draw-shape and some props:

<template>
    <can-vue>
        <draw-shape
            shape="circle"
            x="100"
            y="100"
            width="50"
            height="50"
            opacity="1"
            fill="red"/>
    </can-vue>
</template>

Properties can be reactive:

<template>
    <can-vue>
        <draw-shape
            shape="rect"
            :x="myAnimatingValue"/>
    </can-vue>
</template>

and/or percentages of the canvas space:

<template>
    <can-vue>
        <draw-shape
            shape="rect"
            x="50%"/>
    </can-vue>
</template>

Component API

can-vue

Wrapper for can-vue instance. Creates a div with classes can-vue and wrapper which wrap a canvas element and Vue slot.

Props

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
height	String, Number	-1	Height in px of the canvas. Defaults to full height of containing div if -1.
width	String, Number	-1	Width in px of the canvas. Defaults to full width of containing div if -1.

draw-shape

Wrapper for a single Konva shape.

Props

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
fill	String	blue	Fill color of this shape.
height	String, Number	100	Height in pixels of the shape. Also accepts percentage of height of canvas. (example "50%")
opacity	String, Number	1	Opacity of the shape.
shape	String	Rect	Konva shape to render. Works with Rect and Circle currently.
width	String, Number	100	Width in pixels of the shape. Also accepts percentage of height of canvas (example "50%")
x	String, Number	0	X coordinate in pixels. Also accepts percentage of width of canvas (example "50%")
y	String, Number	0	Y coordinate in pixels. Also accepts percentage of height of canvas (example "50%")

What about vue-konva?

Vue-Konva is great, but it's a bit more complicated than can-vue in order to support Konva's full feature set. I was looking for a simple, reactive canvas framework for Vue and, since Vue-Konva isn't reactive, made a quick version of my own.