Finale

Congratulations! You finished the Canvas tutorial! This knowledge will help you to make great 2D graphics on the web.

More examples and tutorials

There are a variety of demos and further explanations about canvas on these sites:

Canvas Codepens

Front End Developer Playground & Code Editor in the Browser.

Canvas Tutorials

Examples for most canvas APIs.

Game development

Gaming is one of the most popular computer activities. New technologies are constantly arriving to make it possible to develop better and more powerful games that can be run in any standards-compliant web browser.

Other Web APIs

These APIs might be useful when working further with canvas and graphics:

WebGL

Advanced API for rendering complex graphics, including 3D.

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics let you describe images as sets of vectors (lines) and shapes in order to allow them to scale smoothly regardless of the size at which they're drawn.

Web Audio

The Web Audio API provides a powerful and versatile system for controlling audio on the Web, allowing developers to choose audio sources, add effects to audio, create audio visualizations, apply spatial effects (such as panning) and much more.

Questions

Stack Overflow

Questions tagged with "canvas".

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