SVG Editor

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A super simple yet powerful, user-friendly, browser-based SVG vector editor. Built with the latest web development techs: React.js and Fabric.js.

Provide your users an easy-to-use drawing tool. Or alternatively, it’s also a great starting point to build more complex things, like Canva.

Editor Features

The aim was to keep the editing experience easy for the average user. It contains only the minimum, most basic tools that are necessary to draw almost anything.

• Object settings: color & gradient fill, border, alignment, transformations, image effects
• Basic shapes included
• Connectable lines and curves, free draw
• 15° jumps on rotation and line drawing (while holding Shift)
• Textbox with font settings
• File upload via HTML5 File API, so we don’t need a server
• Save image as SVG, JPG or PNG
• Basic shortcuts: arrow key, undo/redo, copy/paste
• You can also paste an image from the clipboard
• Zoom (Ctrl +/-, Ctrl + mouse wheel)
• Cross-browser support, displays a warning for old browsers
• Touch friendly (tested on touchscreen notebook)

Code Features

• Built with the latest React features
• Re-usable JS components
• Easy to translate: all texts are stored in a JSON file
• Clean, commented code
• Works in all modern, major browsers
• Easy to maintain and modify
• Documentation

Changelog

v2.0.0 – January 30, 2026

 - now we display the dragon test SVG locally as well - replaced kitten image URL due to CORS issues, which also broke saving the image as SVG - refactored base from Create React App to Vite, all .js files were renamed to .jsx extension - updated Fabric to v5     - Object.setGradient() was removed, now using Object.set('fill', new fabric.Gradient(options)))     - Canvas.trigger() was removed, replaced with fire()     - forked react-color package to fix warnings     - transform events were removed: object:rotated/scaled/moved/skewed, we access them now via object:modified     - selection:updated and selection:created events do not have anymore the following properties: updated, target - updated files (all .js files were renamed to .jsx extension)     - package.json     - src/components/CanvasSettings.js     - src/components/DrawSettings.js     - src/components/FabricCanvas.js     - src/components/InputRange.scss     - src/components/SelectionAlignSettings.js     - src/components/SelectionBorderSettings.js     - src/components/SelectionColorSettings.js     - src/components/SelectionEffectSettings.js     - src/components/SelectionObjectSettings.js     - src/components/SelectionTextSettings.js     - src/components/Shapes.js     - src/components/UploadSettings.js     - src/utils/copyPaste.js     - src/utils/demoContent.js     - src/utils/lineDrawing.js     - src/utils/pathDrawing.js     - src/utils/textBoxDrawing.js     - vendor/* 

v1.1.2 – April 12, 2023

 - fix: after fitting canvas to content, clicking the download resets canvas to previous size - updated files:   - src/components/CanvasSettings.js   - src/components/SelectionTextSettings.js 

v1.1.1 – March 1, 2023

 - fix: textbox issue, after typing we couldn't change font style on other textboxes - fix: textbox overall stylings are displayed properly now on direct textbox switch - fix: now you can copy paste text from/to textbox editing - fix: overflow-y vertical scrollbar - updated files:   - package.json   - src/App.js, index.scss   - src/components/FabricCanvas.js, InputAmout.js, InputAmount.scss, SelectionObjectSettings.js, SelectionSettings.js, SelectionTextSettings.js, ToolPanel.scss   - src/utils/copyPaste.js, textBoxDrawing.js, usePrevious.js 

v1.1.0 – October 18, 2022

 - added a changelog - base app update, package updates, fixed a bunch of deprecated warnings - app now supports latest LTS Node version (v16.17.1) - updated Fabric to latest 3.x.x version (v4 and v5 contains breaking changes, it will be a bigger update later) - updated app render to React 18 - fixed SASS lint issues - fix: when only a part of a text was selected, font size change didn't work - fix: CTRL + scroll zoom issues - fix: alignment tools didn't work well when zoomed in/out - fix: downloaded image size changed when zommed in/out - fix: ungrouping just grouped objects didn't work - fix: selection settings panel disappeared after ungrouping - updated files:   - package.json   - src/App.js, index.js   - src/components/Button.scss, FloatingMenu.js, GradientPicker.scss, InputRange.scss, SelectionAlignSettings.js, SelectionObjectSettings.js, SelectionTextSettings.js   - utils/saveInBrowser.js, zoom.js 

v1.0.1 – June 29, 2020

 - Fix: Shape component's title was untranslated - Fix: after free draw selecting the object produced an error - Updated files: src/components/Shapes.js, src/components/SelectionColorSettings.js, src/languages/en.json