FabricJs uniform scale and the common user expectation
Posted on August 11, 2021
The common behaviour of resizing objects freely vs preserving the object proportion present in any image editors is already built-in in Fabric.js, and that's great!
The problem is that the default setting is kinda the opposite to the common image editors out there.
If you begin resizing an object in a Fabric Canvas, the aspect-ratio of that object is preserved while by pressing the SHIFT command, it switches to the freely transformation mode.
I think this isn't consistent.
To revert back to the common user expectation, here the magic line of code from doc:
canvas.uniformScaling = false
Happy Fabric.js!