react-canvas VS awesome-react-renderer

> Building an accessible canvas-based UI with a React-like API would make a lot more sense for SPAs

https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas

React is the Simpsons of web tech.

Flipboard's react-canvas

https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas

There seems to be also a canvas library for React, called react-canvas, but it seems lacking a lot of features compared to Fabric.js.

I remember Flipboard using canvas to render their UI before using react, which has the same idea, you can look at the repo and their post about it:

https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas

React Canvas

You can also try using Canvas element in react https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas

I'm confused, there is react-canvas. Does it just not work very good?

Yes, the reactions to it were not very enthusiastic as you'd expect. Also it did have a11y issues.

There are a lot of interesting renderers for react, some of them are even maintained: https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-react-renderer

Cool work! But title is indeed misleading :( It's because what you've presented is indeed possible with react and js as they're quite versatile, look at this awesome list for examples: https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-react-renderer

There is a lot of them https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-react-renderer

For example, because I know React, I was able to code a 3D application that uses ThreeJS and place 3D objects on the screen instead of divs, using the same methodologies just like in a normal web app. You can see other rendering targets at https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-react-renderer. There are some pretty interesting ones out there.

List of custom renderers

Due to its awesome renderer system, there are many React Renderor. So React can be not used only Web, for example, used by React Native.