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You can access this.$refs.canvas in your chart component.
If you want to access it from your parent component there are several ways.
The fast unclean way is over this.$children
https://v2.vuejs.org/v2/api/#vm-children
A better way would be to setup the gradient stuff into a own method and pass in all data as props to your chart component.
Source:stackexchange.com