Using Fabric.js To Render And Manipulate Server-side Canvas In Node.js

I'm trying to use fabric.js (v0.9.21, installed via npm on ubuntu 12.04) with node.js to render a canvas on the server (which can later be manipulated and extended without clientsi

Solution 1:

I think the issue is that you are trying to render the canvas before the image is added to the canvas. In my case calling renderAll() in the callback to loadFromJSON() solved the issue.

canvas.loadFromJSON(JSON.stringify(json),canvas.renderAll.bind(canvas));

or

canvas.loadFromJSON(JSON.stringify(json),canvas.renderAll());

This will ensure that canvas is rendered only after the json data has beed loaded into the canvas

var canvas = new fabric.Canvas('mycanvas');
var json = {
  "objects": [{
    "type": "image",
    "left": 300,
    "top": 295,
    "width": 500,
    "height": 375,
    "fill": "rgb(0,0,0)",
    "overlayFill": null,
    "stroke": null,
    "strokeWidth": 1,
    "strokeDashArray": null,
    "scaleX": 1,
    "scaleY": 1,
    "angle": 0,
    "flipX": false,
    "flipY": false,
    "opacity": 1,
    "selectable": true,
    "hasControls": true,
    "hasBorders": true,
    "hasRotatingPoint": false,
    "transparentCorners": true,
    "perPixelTargetFind": false,
    "src": "http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTE0NOJqQ46En2x1T61cZf_S4RwxOTtxcLsmfQUHkSXk5SOx-zaYnPj6jYI",
    "filters": []
  }, {
    "type": "text",
    "left": 300,
    "top": 537,
    "width": 116,
    "height": 57.6,
    "fill": "rgb(0,0,0)",
    "overlayFill": null,
    "stroke": null,
    "strokeWidth": 1,
    "strokeDashArray": null,
    "scaleX": 1,
    "scaleY": 1,
    "angle": 0,
    "flipX": false,
    "flipY": false,
    "opacity": 1,
    "selectable": true,
    "hasControls": false,
    "hasBorders": true,
    "hasRotatingPoint": false,
    "transparentCorners": true,
    "perPixelTargetFind": false,
    "text": "Kitten!",
    "fontSize": 12,
    "fontWeight": 400,
    "fontFamily": "Lato",
    "fontStyle": "",
    "lineHeight": 1.2,
    "textDecoration": "",
    "textShadow": "",
    "textAlign": "center",
    "path": null,
    "strokeStyle": "",
    "backgroundColor": "",
    "textBackgroundColor": "",
    "useNative": true
  }],
  "background": "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"
};
canvas.loadFromJSON(JSON.stringify(json), canvas.renderAll.bind(canvas));

#mycanvas {
  border: 1px solid black;
}

<scriptsrc="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fabric.js/1.1.0/fabric.all.min.js"></script><canvasid="mycanvas"width="570"height="600"></canvas>