The deadline was approximately 2 and a half months.As such, it was necessary to decouple the editor from a UI so that various UIs could use the editor’s API. We needed to develop an embeddable piece of software that could be placed inside any app that needs a vector-based graphics editor, including a mobile app. It was supposed to become a kind of library that the Tynker team could reuse inside their existing codebase created in an entirely different tech stack.The project needed to stick to very specific technical and business requirements, in particular: Tynker needed to replace its raster graphics editor, which didn’t work that well for scaling images, text, icons, and other pieces of content due to the inherent limitation of pixel-based graphics.Įnd-users of the Tynker platform, both teachers and students, used the editor to create all kinds of shapes in the course of Tynker’s programming lessons, including charts and diagrams. The goal of the project was to create a new vector graphics editor.

Challenge – to build a graphics system as flexible as vectors themselves

Open source vector graphics software