I Built a Canva-Like Editor With FabricJS and SvelteKit.

I Built a Canva-Like Editor With FabricJS and SvelteKit. Here's What the Tutorials Don't Tell You. Every FabricJS tutorial shows you how to add a rectangle to a canvas. Cool. Now build undo/redo. Now add layers. Now make multi-select work without breaking your layer order. Now serialize custom properties that FabricJS silently throws away. Now make it responsive without destroying your export resolution. That's the gap. The "hello world" is easy. The actual editor is months of "why is this broken" at 1am. I'm building Pictify — a programmable image engine where you design templates visually and render them via API. Think Canva's editor, but the output isn't a PNG you download. It's an API endpoint that generates images from data. It's launching soon, and the editor is the piece I'm most proud of (and most scarred by). FabricJS v6. SvelteKit. XState. Here's everything I learned the hard way. 1. FabricJS + SvelteKit: The SSR Trap First day of the project. I import FabricJS. SvelteKit imm