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Starting with Konva

What's Konva?

Konva is an HTML5 Canvas JavaScript framework that extends the 2d context by enabling canvas interactivity for desktop and mobile applications.

Konva enables high performance animations, transitions, node nesting, layering, filtering, caching, event handling for desktop and mobile applications, and much more.

You can draw things onto the stage, add event listeners to them, move them, scale them, and rotate them independently from other shapes to support high performance animations, even if your application uses thousands of shapes.

This project began as a GitHub fork of KineticJS.

Install Konva

If you are using package managers:

npm install konva

Or just use script tag:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/konva@9/konva.min.js"></script>

Or download from CDN: