Skvetchy - Svelte Drawing Component

A powerful, customizable drawing/sketching component for Svelte applications built with Konva.js.

Demo

Features

• 🎨 Multi-layer drawing support
• ✏️ Pen and eraser tools
• 🎯 Customizable pen colors and sizes
• 📱 Fullscreen mode support
• 💾 PNG export functionality
• ↩️ Undo/Redo functionality
• 👁️ Layer visibility controls
• 🔄 Layer reordering and renaming
• 📦 Fully customizable UI components

Installation

npm install skvetchy

Basic Usage

<script>
  import { Skvetchy } from 'skvetchy';
  
  let drawingComponent;
  
  function handleExport(event) {
    console.log('Exported image:', event.detail);
  }
</script>

<Skvetchy
  bind:this={drawingComponent}
  width="800px"
  height="600px"
  imageWidth={1920}
  imageHeight={1080}
  on:export={handleExport}
/>

Props

| showLayerPanel | boolean | true | Whether to show the layer panel | | initialPenColor | string | '#000000' | Initial pen color | | initialPenSize | number | 5 | Initial pen size | | initialTool | 'pen' \| 'eraser' | 'pen' | Initial tool selection | | enableFullscreen | boolean | true | Whether fullscreen mode is enabled | | className | string | '' | Additional CSS class for styling |

Events

Methods

You can call these methods on the component instance:

<script>
  let drawingComponent;
  
  function undoLastAction() {
    drawingComponent.undo();
  }
  
  function redoLastAction() {
    drawingComponent.redo();
  }
  
  function addNewLayer() {
    drawingComponent.addLayer();
  }
  
  function clearCurrentLayer() {
    drawingComponent.clearActiveLayer();
  }
  
  async function exportImage() {
    const imageBlob = await drawingComponent.exportToPNG();
    // Handle the exported image
  }
  
  function getCurrentLayers() {
    return drawingComponent.getLayers();
  }
  
  function getActiveLayer() {
    return drawingComponent.getActiveLayerId();
  }
</script>

Advanced Usage

Custom Styling

<Skvetchy
  className="my-custom-drawing"
  backgroundColor="#f0f0f0"
  width="100vw"
  height="100vh"
/>

<style>
  :global(.my-custom-drawing) {
    border: 2px solid #ccc;
    border-radius: 8px;
  }
</style>

Headless Usage (Custom UI)

If you want to build your own UI, you can import individual components:

<script>
  import { Canvas, LayerPanel } from 'skvetchy';
  // Build your own layout with these components
</script>

Event Handling

<script>
  import { Skvetchy } from 'skvetchy';
  
  function handleLayersChange(event) {
    console.log('Current layers:', event.detail);
    // Sync with your app state
  }
  
  function handleToolChange(event) {
    console.log('Tool changed to:', event.detail);
    // Update your UI accordingly
  }
  
  function handleExport(event) {
    const imageBlob = event.detail;
    // Upload to server, save locally, etc.
  }
</script>

<Skvetchy
  on:layersChange={handleLayersChange}
  on:toolChange={handleToolChange}
  on:export={handleExport}
/>

Development

To work on this component:

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start development server
npm run dev

# Build the library
npm run build

# Package for distribution
npm run package

Dependencies

• Svelte 4.x
• Konva.js
• svelte-konva

License

MIT