When to use Fabric

Things Fabric is good at:

• Object manipulation, where object is any of "simple shape, image, vector shape, text" and manipulation is any of "moving, rotating, resizing"
• Image filters (few filters built-in and easy to define your own)
• Displaying large number of objects on canvas (performance-wise)
• Displaying rich text (multiline, text alignment, text decorations, background, shadow, outline)
• Parsing SVG and displaying it on canvas
• Rendering SVG, or any of Fabric-supported content (simple shapes, vector shapes, images, text) on a server, via Node.js
• Animating any of "simple shapes, vector shapes, images, text"
• Grabbing objects via non-transparent content (not only through bounding box)

Things Fabric is not so good at:

• Non-trivial collision detection (e.g. per-pixel or per-curve)
• Non-trivial charts (nothing outside of the box, although possible to create chart abstractions)
• Sprite-based animation (nothing outside of the box, although possible to create sprite abstractions)
• 3D object transformations