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Apply frame image on top of Fabric JS Canvas

I am using Fabric JS to allow the user to have an interactive experience on my React app. Is it possible to apply a frame around a Fabric JS that is taken from an image? For instance, if the canvas is 400x400 px I can resize an image of a frame that is transparent in the middle to 410x410px and apply it on top of the canvas for the user to see? I have attached two images for reference.
Edit: This is the code I am using for zooming in
const zoomIn = useCallback(() => {
// Get original height of canvas
const canvasDimensions = getInitialCanvasSize()
let zoom = HTML5Canvas.getZoom()
zoom += 0.2
if (zoom >= 2) zoom = 2
HTML5Canvas.setZoom(zoom)
HTML5Canvas.setWidth(canvasDimensions.width * HTML5Canvas.getZoom());
HTML5Canvas.setHeight(canvasDimensions.height * HTML5Canvas.getZoom());
}, [HTML5Canvas])

There is no option for canvas's border in fabricjs canvas docs
But you can still achieve this easily using following steps.
PART 1: Creating the Illusion of border
CSS Method
First one can easily create CSS border around the canvas.
Best way to do this is to create div around canvas, as fabricjs split canvas in 2 while running.
You can create slider to control width and color/image for div's border.
This will looks like exactly your second image with customization.
OR
Another Canvas Method
Behind current canvas put this second canvas and control its width and image.
I don't recommend this one, as this will make it more complex to implement.
PART 2: Making Illusion real
If you used CSS METHOD
Now you get what your canvas looks like. You have width of border, image/color of border.
Steps:
Create new canvas (lets' call it 2nd Canvas) of 410px if canvas's width 400px with border of 5px.
Export main canvas as image and put it over 2nd Canvas. And now you can export this as final image.
For 2nd step check my answer on this stack
If you used Another Canvas Method
Directly follow above 2nd step
Export main canvas as image and put it over 2nd Canvas. And now you can export this as final image.
For 2nd step check my answer on this stack

GetImageData and multiple images

How to use getImageData() in js, when the images are drawn into the canvas on top of one another? (I need the data of each image separately.)

Here's one way:
// get the imageData for the second image
context.drawImage(secondImage,0,0);
var imageData2=context.getImageData(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
context.clearRect(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
// get the imageData for the first image
context.drawImage(firstImage,0,0);
var imageData1=context.getImageData(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
// and now redraw the second image back on the canvas
context.drawImage(secondImage,0,0);

Or simply create a canvas object for each image. They will visually layer correctly but you can work with image independently. If you don't mess with the z-index they will render in the order you add the canvas objects.

Hi I would like to copy content of a canvas in another canvas with zoom

Actually. I have created two canvas one containing some static content & over that another canvas containing some dynamic content. Now I have show snap of both the canvas with zoom in a separate canvas where the snap will change according to the moving object. I am using getImage & putImage but unable to zoom the image content. Even getImage is not working for the canvas contating dynamic content because security error is showing.

context.drawImage can use another canvas as its source image.
context.drawImage can scale the source image when drawing.
context.drawImage does not run afoul of CORS security like getImageData does.
For example, assume sourceCanvas has the original image located at coordinate[20,30] sized at 100x140.
If you have a context to the destination canvas, you can scale it 2X and draw it on the destination canvas at [50,60] like this:
context.drawImage(
sourceCanvas,
20,30,100,140, // grabs 100x140 pixels from sourceCanvas at [20,30]
50,60,200,280 // scale the grabbed pixels to 200x280 and draw it at [50,60]
);

Making images draggable to HTML5 Canvas, moving images out of canvas

I'm trying to make a custom avatar maker, where my users can drag & drop images to the position they want (clothes etc. I take the image urls from database based on what they own). Then they can save the look as png image to my site (using php). I have no experience on javascript/jquery but I don't think that this can be without them. So I've found amazing code for this from here:
http://www.fabiobiondi.com/blog/2012/10/export-and-save-a-screenshot-of-an-html5-canvas-using-php-jquery-and-easeljs/
But the images are already in the canvas and can't go outside of it, which is bad considering that someone could have 100 pieces of clothing and didn't want to display them all. Also I have to make custom code for each piece, which is also bad because not all users have the same images to drag.
Is there a way to put all images draggable (to the canvas), so I could easily add the image urls from my database as basic html/css? Is it possible that the images would be outside of the canvas first? Or should I create another canvas for the items users don't want?

the script in the article uses a static image because its goal is only explain how to export a canvas to bitmap : )
I have written another small article where I describe how to upload N images from your hard drive into a canvas ( using CreateJS ) so as you can see the process to load dynamic sources is not so hard.
http://www.fabiobiondi.com/blog/2012/10/upload-images-from-the-user-hard-driveto-an-html5-canvas-easel-js-application/
Anyway, if you need to load an image into a canvas you can simply use a syntax like this:
var img = new createjs.Bitmap('http://uri/image.jpg')
img.x = 50;
img.y = 50;
stage.addChild(img)
stage.update();
and if you need to know when an image is completely loaded you should listen for the onload event:
var image = new Image();
image.onload = onImageLoaded;
image.src = "http://uri/image.jpg";
function onImageLoaded (event) {
var img = new createjs.Bitmap(event.target)
img.x = 50;
img.y = 50;
stage.addChild(img)
stage.update();
}
hope it's useful

How Do You Render a Portion of an SVG in Canvas?

Core Problem:
The goal is to render a portion of an SVG to a fixed size Canvas element on a web page.
My Attempted Solution:
Seeing as CanVG seems to be the most straight-forward way to render an SVG image in Canvas I figured I could leverage the viewBox attribute to crop the image prior to CanVG's rendering. I've been having trouble on this point.
The Question:
Provided an SVG image, how can one render a portion of that image to a Canvas element?

Create an offscreen canvas and render to it using CanVG:
var full = document.createElement('canvas');
full.width=800; full.height=600;
canvg(full, '<svg>…</svg>');
Copy a portion of this canvas-as-image to a region on another canvas using drawImage (see link for parameter details):
var ctx = myVisibleCanvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(full,10,20,80,60,92,16,80,60);
Edit: However, the above is not necessary if you have access to the SVG source (either directly in JS or via an XMLHTTP request) and can modify the viewBox attribute before rendering. See this demo which shows an SVG file rendered directly to one canvas, and then changes the viewBox attribute and renders the clipped region to another canvas.

Which exactly is the problem you get?
The context.drawImage function has a nice cropping feature built in. Instead of the standard 3 parameters (image object, x position, y position) you just pass to it 9 parameters and it will crop the image. These are the parameters:
context.drawImage(
imageObject,
original image x crop position,
original image y crop position,
original image crop width,
original image crop height,
canvas image x crop position,
canvas image y crop position,
canvas image crop width,
canvas image crop height
)
I have no idea if this works with CanVG but, as long as you can pass an image object to the function drawImage(), you will be able to crop it as mentioned in the code.