react-canvaskit vs react-native-skia

react-canvaskit

Experiment in creating a custom react renderer using an offscreen webgl canvas on top of Skia CanvasKit (by udevbe)

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High-performance React Native Graphics using Skia (by Shopify)

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react-canvaskit		react-native-skia
	Project
1	Mentions	24
103	Stars	6,436
3.9%	Growth	3.1%
2.6	Activity	9.7
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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react-canvaskit

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-canvaskit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-05.

Ditch the DOM with SolidJS and Skia CanvasKit
17 projects | dev.to | 5 Aug 2022

After a little research, I found that someone has already beat me to it for React — react-canvaskit. This implementation used react-reconciler to create a custom renderer for React. This is the same process used by **react-three-fiber** (aka R3F) to bring ThreeJS elements to the React VDOM/lifecycle (e.g. when you use ).

react-native-skia

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-skia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-20.

WebKit Switching to Skia for 2D Graphics Rendering
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2024

It works wonderfully well for my react native app, see https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia/ for details!
Going down the rabbit hole of the canvas
2 projects | dev.to | 17 Feb 2024

I stopped further tracking of the source code. As an end of this blog post, I would like to share my finding of the React Native Skia which brings the Skia Graphics Library to React Native. You can get more information from a Shopify Engineering blog Getting Started with React Native Skia. Hope it helps, see you next post.
React Native in Next.JS for Hybrid Web/Mobile Monorepo: Should I give up? ($250 Bounty)
2 projects | /r/nextjs | 9 Dec 2023

This is the latest version of the issue (haven't had much luck getting support from the Skia team throughout this), I'm happy to get on a call to show you further if you have any experience with dealing with these monorepos or Skia for web. The moment we run a successful Next.js build I'll paypal you $250 on the spot.
Looking for articles about react-native-skia
1 project | /r/reactnative | 1 Nov 2023

The docs for react-native-skia docs seem spare and the only linked tutorials are in video form. Can anyone recommend any good written resources?
React native for Linux app development in 2023
7 projects | /r/reactnative | 6 Jun 2023
React Native is Multi Threaded
3 projects | dev.to | 4 Jun 2023

By using libraries like Reanimated, React Native MMKV, and React Native Skia, you leverage the native thread. However, I know there are developers building amazing things who think outside the box. I'm always thrilled when I read engineering blogs from companies like Netflix, Meta, and Shopify. They create solutions beyond the limits.
Revolutionizing Data with React Native ECharts 1.1: Now More Interactive!
6 projects | dev.to | 28 May 2023

@wuba/react-native-echarts, An awesome charting library for React Native, built upon Apache ECharts and leveraging react-native-svg and react-native-skia. Offers significantly better performance compared to WebView-based solutions. If you want to learn more about the project's design principles, you can click here.
How can I draw custom vector graphics in ReactNative (equivalent to Flutter CustomPaint) ?
2 projects | /r/reactnative | 21 Apr 2023

There's also React Native Skia.
Is this impossible to re-create in React Native?
1 project | /r/reactnative | 31 Mar 2023

yes this can be achieved using react-native-skia. Check it out link:https://shopify.github.io/react-native-skia/
Graphs and Charts in React Native
1 project | /r/reactnative | 4 Feb 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-canvaskit and react-native-skia you can also consider the following projects:

solid-universal-renderer-template - Template for creating and testing SolidJS universal renderers

react-native-reanimated - React Native's Animated library reimplemented

solid-canvaskit-renderer - Renders JSX directly to CanvasKit using SolidJS Universal renderer

perfect-freehand - Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines.

solid-three - port of @react-three/fiber for solid

rn-perfect-sketch-canvas - Perfect pressure-sensitive drawing for both iOS and Android.

skia-canvaskit-wasm-nextjs

yoga - Yoga is an embeddable layout engine targeting web standards.

solid - A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

react-native - A framework for building native applications using React

react-three-fiber - 🇨🇭 A React renderer for Three.js

react-native-svg - SVG library for React Native, React Native Web, and plain React web projects. [Moved to: https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-svg]