Text anchoring/align

[sekoyo]

Hey, SVG has text anchoring which is very useful. It's quite limiting at the moment to e.g. align chart axis labels with Skia. I wonder if this is something Skia already has which can be exposed, or maybe there is already a way to do it (I see nothing on the Text component)?

[wcandillon]

Thank you for bringing this up. This would indeed be extremely useful. When working with SVG, text anchoring is quite powerful.
And we know that Skia implements it in their own SVG implementation: https://github.com/google/skia/blob/main/modules/svg/src/SkSVGText.cpp

We are looking of providing support for the paragraph module in react-native-skia and it might remove the need to implement anchors in text. We need to look into it.