tldraw
ActiveDescription
tldraw is an infinite canvas SDK for the web; its AI integrations let agents draw, annotate, and reason visually over a shared whiteboard.
Key Features
- Infinite canvas SDK as React components embeddable in any web app
- Generative-UI friendly — adopted as the visual frontend by multiple agent products
- Complete design system with shapes, connectors, text, images, and layers
- Built-in collaboration with multi-user cursors, selection sync, and persistence
- Highly customizable with deep control over styles, tools, and behaviors
Use Cases
💡 Provide a visual workflow editor for AI agent applications
💡 Build a collaborative AI ideation whiteboard
💡 Render the agent reasoning path graphically for end users
💡 Serve as the canvas foundation for generative UI interactions
Strengths & Limitations
✅ Strengths
- • Actively maintained, recent updates
- • High community interest (49.8k stars)
- • Established track record (5 years in production)
- • Responsive to issues, low backlog
⚠️ Limitations
- • No clear open-source license
Categories
Quick Start
# Install the tldraw SDK
npm install tldraw
# Use in a React app
import { Tldraw } from 'tldraw'
import 'tldraw/tldraw.css'
export default function App() {
return <div style={{ position: 'fixed', inset: 0 }}>
<Tldraw />
</div>
}