Is there already a canvas drawing directive for AngularJS out there?

Question

Is there already a directive to draw/paint things on a canvas? So you can implement something like Paint or even something bigger like Photoshop etc., but a very basic examp

Answer 1

Angular is ideally suited for writing applications in declarative style. Once you hit the canvas element you cannot go any further with declarative and you have to switch towards an imperative way of writing mechanism. If the majority of your application is providing UI, which you define in html in the rest of your application I would highly encourage you to use AngularJS. Its an amazing framework for that.

On the other hand if the majority of your code is going to be inside the canvas element, then perhaps AngularJS is not the ideal tool for you. If you really insist on using AngularJS for the majority of your application I would suggest you to consider using something like D3 which is an excellent alternative and uses SVG behind the scenes ( which is declarative in nature and hence a great sidekick for AngularJS ).