Html works but JS Image loading cause CORS error

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I try to found solution my self (JS ES6) but find only-partially. We are able to load img from no-CORS support src into canvas but browser switch cavnas into ‘taint mode’ which not allow us to call toDataURL (and any other access to content). 

function loadImgAsBase64(url, callback) {
  let canvas = document.createElement('CANVAS');
  let img = document.createElement('img');
  //img.setAttribute('crossorigin', 'anonymous');
  img.src = url;

  img.onload = () => {
    canvas.height = img.height;
    canvas.width = img.width;
    let context = canvas.getContext('2d');
    context.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
    let dataURL = canvas.toDataURL('image/png');
    canvas = null;
    callback(dataURL);
  };
}


let url="http://lorempixel.com/500/150/sports/9/";

this.loadImgAsBase64(url, (dataURL) => {
   msg.innerText = dataURL.slice(0,50)+'...';
});
IMAGE DATA: loading...<br>
<div id="msg"></div>

So only way to overcome this obstacle is to create proxy server (e.g. in PHP) which will have CORS ‘on’ and it will download images for given url and send back to our app in JS. I found some free server https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com which we can use to in development to tests. Below there is full functional code which return dataUri from given image url: 

function loadImgAsBase64(url, callback) {
  let canvas = document.createElement('CANVAS');
  let img = document.createElement('img');
  img.setAttribute('crossorigin', 'anonymous');
  img.src="https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/" + url;

  img.onload = () => {
    canvas.height = img.height;
    canvas.width = img.width;
    let context = canvas.getContext('2d');
    context.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
    let dataURL = canvas.toDataURL('image/png');
    canvas = null;
    callback(dataURL);
  };
}


let url="http://lorempixel.com/500/150/sports/9/";

this.loadImgAsBase64(url, (dataURL) => {
   msg.innerText = dataURL.slice(0,50)+'...';
   // show pic
   document.body.innerHTML += `<img src="${dataURL}">`
});
IMAGE DATA Loading...<br>
<div id="msg"></div>

Thats all 🙂 (I tested it on chrome, firefox and safari)

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