shapes is an easy-to-use shape drawing API for the HTML canvas.

• Simple: One shape = function call
• Super tiny: under 3 KB unminified & uncompressed
• No external dependencies
• TypeScript support (definitions included)

Quick guide

npm i veridict/shapes.js --save

Shapes are drawn by calling different functions on the shape API. To create a new shape API use:

const shape = shapes(canvas);

Then use it, easy as pie:

shape.circle({
  radius: 100,
  x: 50,
  y: 50,
  style: '#009688'
});

If you need to offset the drawing origin (offset from top left), you can use:

shape.offset(50, 50);

You can also draw layers:

const shape = shapes(ctx);
const text = 'Layers are easy!';
const font = '14px sans-serif';
const pad = 14;
const width = shape.textWidth(text, font) + pad * 2;
const height = pad * 3;

shape.layers([
  // Contents (z-index 0)
  {
    'rect background': {
      x: 0,
      y: 0,
      width,
      height,
      style: '#000000DD'
    },
    'text contents': {
      x: pad,
      y: pad + pad / 2,
      value: text,
      style: '#fff'
    }
  },
  // Details (z-index 1)
  {
    'rect bottom border': {
      x: pad,
      y: pad * 2,
      width: width - pad * 2,
      height: 2,
      style: '#fff'
    }
  }
]);

Each layer contains a set of named commands, they describe:

• The draw-command, e.g. rect
• A descriptive name, e.g. background (optional)

The name works like a discriminator between commands within a layer. As JavaScript-objects require unique property names, having two rect commands would not work.

Layers are useful for combining draw calls, as you can keep your layers and draw logic separated.

Check out the basic example.