fabric JS not running on node after installing correctly

Question

I want to use fabric js on a node server to generate SVG images. I followed the instructions to run fabric js on node in a mac environment. I'm trying to run the hello world fabric application from the fabric js documentation under nodejs examples.

If i run typeof require('canvas'); in the node shell. It returns 'function' as it should, according to fabricjs documentation Running typeof require('fabric'); also returns object as it should. Im pretty sure that I installed the dependencies correctly but not entirely sure why the code is not running as expected.

However, running the code results in this error: TypeError: fabric.createCanvasForNode is not a function

Here is the code I am trying to run.

I changed my python version to 2.7 and node is v 9.2.0 . All help is appreciated!

var fs = require('fs'),
    fabric = require('fabric').fabric,
    out = fs.createWriteStream(__dirname + '/helloworld.png');

var canvas = fabric.createCanvasForNode(200, 200);

var text = new fabric.Text('Hello world', {
  left: 100,
  top: 100,
  fill: '#f55',
  angle: 15
});
canvas.add(text);

var stream = canvas.createPNGStream();
stream.on('data', function(chunk) {
  out.write(chunk);
});

Answer 1

Dez' Answer almost satisfied me, but it was not a fully working example. At least not for me. This is my result after digging a little bit deeper into the topic:

const { fabric } = require("fabric");
const canvas = new fabric.Canvas(null, {width: 500, height: 500});

const fs = require("fs");
const stream = canvas.createPNGStream();
const out = fs.createWriteStream("test.png");

var text = new fabric.Text("Hello world", {
  left: 100,
  top: 100,
  fill: "#f55",
  angle: 15
});

canvas.add(text);

canvas.renderAll();

stream.on('data', function(chunk) {
  out.write(chunk);
});