10 Best Javascript Drawing and Canvas Libraries

13 Oct
2009


Develop Rich interactive internet applications with these javascript drawing and canvas libraries. JavaScript developers, web developers and webmasters can take advantage of these libraries to add graphics drawing functionality to their web applications or websites.

Draw2D Javascript Drawing Library

Draw2D is the graph component of the Open-jACOB web based workflow editor. The purpose of this experiment is to see if a Visio-type workflow editor tool could be developed in a web browser. It demonstrates that it can be done.


JavaScript Vector-Draw Library

How many times you wished if you could only draw an arrow on your web page? Or few lines here and there? Unfortunately, HTML offers nothing in this department, and using images takes bandwidth and slows down the loading of your pages


jsDraw2D : 2D Graphics Library for JavaScript

This is a pure JavaScript library to draw 2D graphics on web pages inside web browser without using SVG or VML. JavaScript developers, web developers and webmasters can take advantage of the library to add graphics drawing functionality to their web applications or websites using the library. The library is entirely written in JavaScript and does not need any plug-in or additional software to run/execute. The JavaScript source code of the library is open and free under a LGPL License.


CanvasGraph.js : Graphing in Javascript

Canvas Graph is a small simple javascript library that allows you to conveniently plot simple line, bar and pie charts using the new HTML Canvas Tag.


PlotKit – Javascript Chart Plotting

PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support.


Raphael: javascript drawing library

Raphael is a very slick looking JavaScript library for drawing and animating vector graphics with JavaScript. The API is simple and well thought-out and it supports all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 6.


Drawing lines in Mozilla based browsers and the Internet Explorer

In this article, I want to explain and deduce the line drawing algorithm by Bresenham. Afterwards, I will show an optimized version which can be used to draw lines in Gecko based browsers like Mozilla or Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. As you know, HTML itself is not able to describe lines. Therefore, there is no built-in features in the above-mentioned browsers for drawing lines. By implementing the Bresenham algorithm with JavaScript while applying some tricks, we will be able to draw


Flotr Javascript Plotting Library

Flotr is a javascript plotting library based on the Prototype Javascript Framework version 1.6.0.2 at the moment and inspired by Flot written by Ole Laursen.


DHTML, JavaScript Vector Graphics Library

This JavaScript VectorGraphics library provides graphics capabilities for JavaScript: functions to draw circles, ellipses ovals, oblique lines, polylines and polygons for instance triangles, rectangles dynamically into a webpage. Usage of this Vector Graphics library should be easy even if you do not have JavaScript experience.


canviz JavaScript library

Canviz is a JavaScript library for drawing Graphviz graphs to a web browser canvas. More technically, Canviz is a JavaScript xdot renderer. It works in most modern browsers.

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October 21st, 2009 at 8:40 am

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Phil Leggetter

October 25th, 2009 at 6:49 am

At work we’ve used the Emprise JavaScript Charts to good success. The API is reasonably intuitive and the docs are in pretty good shape.

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carlos

November 10th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

I also recommend JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit http://thejit.org for drawing complex visualizations and graph networks.

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