Let’s take a look at how to get started with drawing shapes in a React app using the Konva.js canvas library/framework. This is a short step-by-step guide to set up a React app and draw a simple shape in it. But first, let’s take a quick look at what we are gonna be working with: React: React is a front-end framework developed and maintained by Facebook. It is highly popular in the frontend community (take a look at the statistics) and boosts with an enormous eco-systems consisting of thousands of packages.