Draw Text Within Rectangle | Canvas API Javascript Tutorial For Beginners Part 30

In this video series we explore how to use the canvas API in javascript to draw shapes, lines and objects. Chart js is build on the canvas API. Understanding how to create basic items and elements in canvas API will give us insight in more advanced options.

Canvas API Javascript Tutorial For Beginners and will cover all the topics needed to know. Once you know this topic you are able to create a lot of unique items and draw all kind of things in the canvas.

We will start with basic shapes and gradually improve and build upon there. This know will help us drawing unique charts eventually with chart js.

Not only does this cover games but all kind of interactive ways of engaging your website viewers to design software.

What is the Canvas API in Javascript?
With the HTML Canvas tag we can we can draw graphic quickly. To draw graphics Javascript code is needed. As the canvas tag is only the container to hold the graphics. You must use JavaScript to actually draw the graphics.

Canvas has several methods for drawing paths, boxes, circles, text, and adding images. However, this is not familiar by many but with chart js know this opens many doors. As we can start creating custom options for chart js.

Why this Canvas API tutorial video?

The canvas API is powerful but not well understood. Many tend to learn HTML, CSS and Javascript. While canvas API uses Javascript the language is slightly different. And if you want to truly master Chart js and create custom charts. Knowing the canvas API is essential.

Chartjs uses the canvas API to draw every chart they have. In essence the Chart js library is a formatted code to help your draw in the canvas API without knowing any canvas API code. Are you ready to learn and go back to basic?

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