v1.0.1

What's Changed

• Fixed missing README on npmjs.com by explicitly including README.md in the package files field.

v1.0.0

What's Changed

New hooks API

• usePainter hook — all canvas painting logic extracted into a standalone hook. This is the recommended API for new code:

  import { usePainter } from 'react-painter';
  
  const Drawable = () => {
    const { canvas, triggerSave, setColor } = usePainter({
      width: 300,
      height: 300,
      onSave: blob => console.log(blob),
    });
  
    return <div>{canvas}</div>;
  };

• ReactPainter render prop still works — it's now a thin wrapper around usePainter, so existing code is unaffected.

Breaking changes

• React peer dependency bumped to >=16.8.0 (from >=0.14.x) — hooks require React 16.8+. If you're on an older React, stay on 0.5.0.

v0.5.0

What's Changed

Modernized build & tooling

• TypeScript 5 + strict mode — upgraded from TS 2.8, enabled strict, react-jsx transform, bundler module resolution
• tsup — replaced Babel/tsc with tsup for dual ESM + CJS output with .d.ts declarations
• ESLint — replaced deprecated tslint with @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin
• Vitest — replaced Jest + canvas-prebuilt with Vitest + jsdom + jest-canvas-mock; expanded test coverage to 20 tests
• Vite demo — replaced Storybook with a lightweight Vite demo app, deployed to GitHub Pages

Breaking changes

• Dropped prop-types peer dependency — TypeScript types provide the same safety at compile time with zero runtime cost. If you relied on runtime prop validation, this is removed.

Package exports

{
  "import": "./dist/index.mjs",
  "require": "./dist/index.js"
}

Validated with publint and @arethetypeswrong/cli.

Improve code readability

• modularise helpers & keep ReactPainter component lightweight
• document less clear code paths
• integrate prettier for code formatting
• fix image link for story with image (for testing only)
• fix typos in README

Fix touch

The library should be working for touch devices again after a bug fix to event coords extraction.

Bug fix

• fixed a bug causing an intermittent crash while drawing

Change ownership

Ownership of the library has changed.
Build and release process have been improved a bit.

Performance Improvement

Utilize createImageBitmap (if supported by browser) to improve performance.

Fix README not rendered correctly in npm

Fix README

Version 0.3.0

Use render prop object properties to set the line prop e.g. color, lineJoin, and lineCap.
Prop is currently set initialValues of the line prop only.