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    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.

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    What HN says

    HN 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.

    Stats for nerds
    15HN people shared it
    11linked in comments
    113story points
    Jul 2026last shared
    2022people per year2026

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Tldraw SDK 4.0
      1 person · 98 points · first shared 2025 · 50 comments on HN
    2. 2
      If 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
    3. 3
      Tldraw raises $10M to build the infinite canvas for developers
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2025 · Discussion on HN
    4. 4
      An exhaustive review of design tool hover areas
      2 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      I'm pretty sure isRecord is tldraw's fault
      2 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      Tldraw – diagram drawing library for React
      3 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Tldraw SDK 5.0
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2026 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Erasing Shapes
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2026 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Performance • tldraw Docs
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2026 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Driver
      1 person · first shared 2026

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • ben_wFeb 2026

      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…

    • pbowyerDec 2022

      > 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)

    • EgoIncarnateDec 2024

      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.

    • ChrisArchitectJul 2026

      I'm pretty sure isRecord is tldraw's fault

      https://tldraw.dev/blog/is-record-sorry (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852553)

    • WillAdamsJul 2026

      I was asking if tldraw had a scripting option.

      Which answer after searching is yes and no:

      https://tldraw.dev/docs/driver

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