VexFlow 3
A JavaScript library for rendering music notation. Copyright (c) 2010 Mohit Muthanna Cheppudira
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If you use VexFlow in your app, startup, institution, and find it useful, please consider sponsoring its development here: https://github.com/sponsors/0xfe.
Need Help? Ask on the Vexflow Google Group.
What is VexFlow?
VexFlow is an open-source web-based music notation rendering API. It is written completely in JavaScript, and runs right in the browser. VexFlow supports HTML5 Canvas and SVG, and runs on all modern browsers.
Go try out The VexFlow Tutorial to learn how to use VexFlow. Also learn to use the simpler EasyScore API in the Using EasyScore guide.
Quick Start
Using NPM
$ npm install vexflow
Using the HTML script Tag
The releases are served via unpkg.com.
- Debug version: https://unpkg.com/vexflow/releases/vexflow-debug.js
- Minified version: https://unpkg.com/vexflow/releases/vexflow-min.js
Using EasyScore
The EasyScore API is a quick way to create simple music notation in VexFlow. See running example in this jsfiddle.
import Vex from 'vexflow';
const vf = new Vex.Flow.Factory({
renderer: {elementId: 'boo', width: 500, height: 200}
});
const score = vf.EasyScore();
const system = vf.System();
system.addStave({
voices: [
score.voice(score.notes('C#5/q, B4, A4, G#4', {stem: 'up'})),
score.voice(score.notes('C#4/h, C#4', {stem: 'down'}))
]
}).addClef('treble').addTimeSignature('4/4');
vf.draw();
Learn more about EasyScore at: Using EasyScore.
Using the Native API
The example code below renders a VexFlow stave using SVG. See running example in this jsfiddle.
import Vex from 'vexflow';
const VF = Vex.Flow;
// Create an SVG renderer and attach it to the DIV element named "vf".
const div = document.getElementById("vf")
const renderer = new VF.Renderer(div, VF.Renderer.Backends.SVG);
// Configure the rendering context.
renderer.resize(500, 500);
const context = renderer.getContext();
context.setFont("Arial", 10, "").setBackgroundFillStyle("#eed");
// Create a stave of width 400 at position 10, 40 on the canvas.
const stave = new VF.Stave(10, 40, 400);
// Add a clef and time signature.
stave.addClef("treble").addTimeSignature("4/4");
// Connect it to the rendering context and draw!
stave.setContext(context).draw();
Resources
To learn and contribute, check out the VexFlow Wiki.
To build VexFlow from scratch, read the Build Instructions.
Sponsor Vexflow: https://github.com/sponsors/0xfe
MIT License
Copyright (c) Mohit Muthanna Cheppudira 2010
0xFE [email protected] http://www.vexflow.com
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