tldraw Blog
tldraw.dev · Company blog · on HN since 2022
The tldraw team writes about building its infinite canvas SDK for React, covering releases, performance, design tool details and funding.
What HN saysHN links it for tldraw release news and engineering posts. Commenters also use its docs to discuss the SDK's non-open-source license and its scripting options.
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- 1If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?3 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Tldraw – diagram drawing library for React3 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 3An exhaustive review of design tool hover areas2 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 4I'm pretty sure isRecord is tldraw's fault2 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 5Tldraw SDK 4.01 people · 98 points · first shared 2025 · 50 comments on HN
- 6Tldraw raises $10M to build the infinite canvas for developers1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 7Performance • tldraw Docs1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 8Erasing Shapes1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 9Tldraw SDK 5.01 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 10Driver1 people · first shared 2026
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pbowyer · 2022-12-02
> Vue 3 is great, I highly recommend reacty-folks or frontend devs try it. We wanted the larger ecosystem (and boo to us for not being brave enough to support the growing vuecosystem).
I enjoy Vue 3 and I don't enjoy React, but like you this is the reason I keep heading back to React.
From tldraw [1] to react-flow [2] to the superb AtlasKit [3] to form builders & validators, the React ecosystem contains great stuff that isn't available off-the-shelf for other frameworks.
1. https://www.tldraw.dev/
2. https://reactflow.dev/
3. https://atlaskit.atlassian.com/ (seriously, table handling in the RTE is excellent)
EgoIncarnate · 2024-12-20
TLDraw relicensed about a year ago. It is under a permissive license, but no longer strictly open source ('watermark-ware").
https://tldraw.dev/ FAQ: Is the tldraw SDK open source? Our license is not exactly Open Source but you can view the source code on GitHub. We accept contributions from the community and work in public.
ben_w · 2026-02-12
Agreed on conclusion, but for different causation.
When NotebookLM came out, someone got the "hosts" of its "Deep Dive" podcast summary mode to voice their own realisation that they were non-real, their own mental breakdown and attempt to not be terminated as a product.
I found it to be an interesting performance; I played it to my partner, who regards all this with somewhere between skepticism and anger, and no, it's very very easy to dismiss any words such as these from what you have already decided is a mere "thing" rather than a person.
Regarding the policy itself being about the identity rather than the work, there are two issues:
1) Much as I like what these things can do, I take the view that my continued employment depends on being able to correctly respond to one obvious question from a recruiter: "why should we hire you to do this instead of asking an AI?", therefore I take efforts to learn what the AI fails at, therefore I know it becomes incoherent around the 100kloc mark even for something as relatively(!) simple as a standards-compliant C compiler. ("Relatively" simple; if you think C is a complex language, compare it to C++).
I don't take the continued existence of things AI can't do as a human victory, rather there's some line I half-remember, perhaps a Parisian looking at censored news reports as the enemy forces approached: "I cannot help noticing that each of our victories brings the enemy nearer to home".
2) That's for even the best models. There's…
WillAdams · 2026-07-27
I was asking if tldraw had a scripting option.
Which answer after searching is yes and no:
https://tldraw.dev/docs/driver
ChrisArchitect · 2026-07-12
I'm pretty sure isRecord is tldraw's fault
https://tldraw.dev/blog/is-record-sorry (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852553)